Shu Zhang
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US$30.00
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ABOUT ME
Fullstack Development Consultant and Entrepreneur
Fullstack Development Consultant and Entrepreneur
Full stack developer with 12+ years of experience.
I was most recently Head of Engineering at Darkstore (https://tcrn.ch/30fpNMQ). I had joined as employee #3 and led engineering from seed to series B. I wrote the majority of its v1 products and built its engineering team.
Previous to that, I worked at a variety of other startups, as well as Google and Zynga, where I led the backend of the ads group.
Specialties: team building/hiring, API design, web development, service oriented architecture, dev-ops, distributed systems, scalability, online advertising products, forecasting, data mining, machine learning
Technical Competencies: Java, JavaScript, node.js, react/react-native, CSS, AWS, Google Cloud, Hadoop, Cassandra, SQL
English
Pacific Time (US & Canada) (-07:00)
Joined January 2017
EXPERTISE
13 years experience | 1 endorsement
I've done Java development almost my entire career and know the ins-and-outs. I've built very scalable backends with Java (REST APIs with...
I've done Java development almost my entire career and know the ins-and-outs. I've built very scalable backends with Java (REST APIs with jax-rs). Among other things, at Zynga I was the engineering manager and dev lead on the ad server, which was built from scratch using Java and delivered 1billion+ ads a day across 30 games on web and mobile. I have built dozens of web services in Java many of which served millions of users. I also have significant experience as a data infrastructure engineer building many parts of the data pipeline using Java and MapReduce.
7 years experience | 1 endorsement
I've used react.js to build web frontends for both freelance clients as well as Darkstore. I've used node.js to build the backend at Dark...
I've used react.js to build web frontends for both freelance clients as well as Darkstore. I've used node.js to build the backend at Darkstore and an ad campaign and inventory management system for Zynga. I also have experience building frontends with backbone.js.
4 years experience | 3 endorsements
React has been part of my preferred stack for the past 4 years and I have multiple projects in production using it for its web frontend. ...
React has been part of my preferred stack for the past 4 years and I have multiple projects in production using it for its web frontend. I've also built an ios app for a freelance client where the frontend was entirely react native.
7 years experience
I've built deployment tools and configuration managers that work with clusters of 100+ nodes in cross-datacenter setups. My preferred clo...
I've built deployment tools and configuration managers that work with clusters of 100+ nodes in cross-datacenter setups. My preferred cloud platform now is google cloud, but I also have significant experience working with AWS and Rackspace.
5 years experience
I've been cloudera certified since 2011. I've worked on a predictive analytics product at a startup whose clients included Rovio, the mak...
I've been cloudera certified since 2011. I've worked on a predictive analytics product at a startup whose clients included Rovio, the maker of angry birds. I've also built reporting and forecasting products that processed billions of data rows each day.
REVIEWS FROM CLIENTS
(5 reviews)
Chris Tsongas
February 2017
Shu went out of his way to give me exactly the help I needed, definitely recommend him!!!
Kajal Patel
January 2017
very nice and helpful
David Gonen
January 2017
Worked through what turned out to be a thorny problem of upgrading react-native to a newer version to get one of the libraries working (react-native-maps). Was very patient, and after methodically trying a few approaches got it working.
Peter
January 2017
Shu was a very helpful and smart mentor
EMPLOYMENTS
VP of Engineering
Darkstore
2017-05-01-2019-09-01
- Led engineering from seed stage to Series B.
- Wrote v1 of several products including: a dashboard, a warehouse management app, a mini ...
- Led engineering from seed stage to Series B.
- Wrote v1 of several products including: a dashboard, a warehouse management app, a mini e- commerce platform, various delivery partner integrations and sales channel integrations.
- Migrated infrastructure from heroku to GCP, enabling rolling deployment, auto scaling, auto healing and industry standard monitoring. Platform uptime has been 99.99+% since.
- Built an eng team of 15 engineers across 3 teams. Reached out and interviewed 200+ candidates, closing amazing senior, staff, and principle level engineers from Google, Palantir, Apple, Tesla and Salesforce.
- Owned overall engineering roadmap and system architecture
- Acting in a CISO role, was responsible for the development and implementation of all information security and privacy programs to meet the requirements of top tier consumer brand partners.
Node.js
PostgreSQL
React
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Node.js
PostgreSQL
React
Google Cloud Platform
React Native
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Consultant
Self Employed
2014-02-01-2017-05-01
Consulted for a variety of startups, helping them build quality MVPs and hire engineers and product folks for their initial team.
Consulted for a variety of startups, helping them build quality MVPs and hire engineers and product folks for their initial team.
Java
Node.js
React
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Java
Node.js
React
Google Cloud Platform
JavaScript
React Native
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Engineering Manager
Zynga
2012-06-01-2014-01-01
- Owned all things backend related for Zynga's $200million/yr ad business
- Shipped the ad server from scratch in just 2 month, which imm...
- Owned all things backend related for Zynga's $200million/yr ad business
- Shipped the ad server from scratch in just 2 month, which immediately delivered 1billion+ ads per day across ~30 games.
- Built our data collection stack, which routes events to support reporting and realtime analytics.
- Led the design and implementation of a hadoop based data warehouse to deliver reporting and forecasting products.
Java
Node.js
Redis
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Java
Node.js
Redis
Memcache
Apache Hadoop
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