# David Z. > Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta Location: Forney, Texas, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/davidz Product engineer, with focus on building and scaling tools to automate manual work. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta Jan 2023 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Vanta Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Lever Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Project contributions: ● Opportunities (New way for how Lever manages candidates) » Revamped how applications and referrals get saved. The revamp spans all data inputs (Job Site, Data API, UIs) » Built new UI for a candidate profile and lists dashboards » Wrote migration logic to transition accounts into the new paradigm ● Agency Portal: » Research, domain implementation, Settings page, email digests ● GDPR: » New tooling for candidate data anonymization Improved testing culture across engineering team: ● Introduced Cypress for faster browser test development ● Provided guidance and pairing on testing, from unit to E2E ● Started working-group to incorporate automated testing as standard process for a project lifecycle ● Built tooling to make test writing easier ### Software Engineering Intern @ Lever Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Unified the codebase for the Chrome extension - allowing for a more consistent experience for over 1,000 corporate customers ### Android Developer Apprentice @ Intrepid Pursuits Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Cambridge, MA ● Helped build a Game of Thrones wiki app. (Team of 2) ● Built the foundation for MIT's maker-space management app. ### Software Developer Intern @ PillPack Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Somerville, MA Worked in a feature team to build in-house software improving customer experience. Both front and back-end contributions in Angular and Rails. ### Design and Development Engineer Intern @ Involution Studios Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Arlington, MA Built the foundation for an intelligent health assistant called Pearl. Pearl is an open-source system of software that manages your health through conversational UI rather than the traditional GUI. Main contributions are in the creation of the front-end, utilities, and general system design. The codebase can be found at https://github.com/openpearl. ### Microbiology and Bioinformatics Research Intern @ Huang Lab at Olin College of Engineering Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | Needham, MA To understand how anaerobic bacterial communities function for things such as nitrogen fixation (plant food), I cultivated thousands of subcultures with LEDs under the direction of Professor Jean Huang, which I then analyzed through various computational bioinformatics methods. ### Teaching Assistant @ Summer Math Institute Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Denton, TX Co-taught a summer acceleration math class (Pre-calculus and Calculus). I was able to bring students through a full year course within four concentrated weeks. ### Physical Chemistry Research Intern @ Marshall Lab Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | University of North Texas, Denton, TX Investigated the relationships of different gases on NOx flue gas. I collected, processed and analyzed data collected from energetically excited gas molecules. This research is under the direction of Dr. P. Marshall, Regents Professor of Chemistry. ## Education ### Engineer's Degree in Human Oriented Software Design Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering ### GED in Texas Academy of Math and Science University of North Texas ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dzlkdin - Website: https://hdavidzhu.github.io - Website: https://github.com/hdavidzhu --- Source: https://flows.cv/davidz JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/davidz/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-29