# Alton Z.

> Software Engineer at Block

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/altonz

Currently working on all things content @ LinkedIn!

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Block
Jan 2022 – Present
Applied AI

### Senior Software Engineer - Content Platform @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco
Enabling new content types on the LinkedIn Feed

### Senior Software Engineer - Publishing & Curation @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019
Building the article editor and publishing experience

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Sharing (Mar 2016 - Nov 2017)
Part of the team that launched video on LinkedIn and owned the content analytics pipeline which processes 500M+ events a day to give members realtime insight into how their content is engaged with.

SlideShare Uploads (July 2015 - Feb 2016)
A LinkedIn aquisition, did a rewrite of the legacy upload experience onto Ember.js

### Software Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Wrote tooling to optimize LinkedIn's data center operations.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yelp
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | San Francisco
Revamped Yelp’s iOS search filtering UX, and added a popularly requested feature (by myself included): the ability to sort by "Most Reviewed".

### Engineering Extern @ Astrid & Co.
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco
Added calendar features to Astrid’s popular Android to-do app.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/altonzheng

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Last updated: 2026-04-12