# Edwin Zhang

> Engineering @ Flipturn - Electrifying transportation! ⚡ · Ex-Samsara · MIT

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

I make products people love and build the tools/culture so others can do the same!

I’ve had the pleasure of leading teams and organizations of all sizes, from seed to post IPO - shipping tons of features and growing my teams :)

On the side, I also teach yoga at CorePower in SF! (RYT-200)

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Flipturn
Jan 2024 – Present
Helping fleets electrify ⚡

Seed -> Series A

### Staff Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023
Series C -> IPO (NYSE: IOT)

Tech lead at the org level, advising directors and VPs.

My home base was in the Infrastructure/Platform org, but I worked across all of R&D to unlock our newest bets, scale our flagship products, and grow new leaders :)

### Senior Software Engineer @ Samsara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
I led teams and grew new leads for 10+ teams of engineers across product, platform, and infrastructure, growing our R&D org from ~20 to 100's. Shipped a lot of features along the way!

My focus was on unlocking key enterprise business - by directly scaling our flagship products 100x, shepherding product excellence and UX, and building highly leveraged infra/tooling so others could do the same.

### Software Engineer @ Counsyl
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | South San Francisco, California

### Front-end Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Menlo Park, CA
FixedDataTable (https://github.com/facebook/fixed-data-table) - An open-source row React-based virtualization table for fast rendering and scrolling with massive reactive data sets

Maintained and contributed to the project both internally (Facebook) and externally (Github). As the primary core contributor, helped manage community issues and PRs, designed + implemented a more flexible and concise component-based API while retaining performance.

### Software Engineer @ Tablelist
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Boston
Full-stack work, focusing largely on front-end. Angular.js (v1.x), SCSS, Node.js

### Software Engineering Intern @ Groupon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Chicago
Greenscreen.io - An open source digital signage solution using Google Chromecasts (http://greenscreen.io)

### Undergraduate Research @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Working on the software development team for MIT's App Inventor, an easy to use IDE for rapid Android app development. 
Focused on UI/UX design for the newest version, App Inventor 2.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Cambridge, MA
- Developed an intuitive, beautiful user interface for and Android app seeking to create a new DIY project-sharing platform
- Worked on graphical design and helped direct the flow of the application.

### Grader/Tutor @ Kumon
Jan 2010 – Jan 2012
- Provided personal assistance with math and reading for students K-12
- Managed a physical and digital file system
- Data entry


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22