# George Zhao

> Software Engineer at FlowKat

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgezhao1

Hilarious Software Engineer and JavaScript aficionado experienced in microservices and creating full-stack applications with React, Node/Express, SQL, NoSQL. Engineer at FlowKat, developing an Apache Kafka metrics and message monitoring system, integrating Prometheus. 

Featured Speaker for Single Sprout Tech Talk Series
‣ CI/CD

Github: https://github.com/iSaySureWhyNot

## Work Experience
### Repair Tech II @ Quanta Manufacturing Fremont
Jan 2023 – Present | Fremont, CA
• Managed and trained 7 debug technicians for META’s debug team, reducing debug error rate by 20%.
• Diagnosed and fixed a critical multi-production line pile up while supervising line leaders to stem the time and yield loss, given full authority by the VP to coordinated and assign tasks to every engineering team (Testing, Shopfloor, Process, ITE, EE, ESH) and PMs to prioritize resolving one of the largest multilayered failures the company has faced
• Designed new processes to ensure such critical failures will never occur again and worked with VP and department heads to deploy training while not affecting normal production.
• Led customer-facing technical meetings covering testing strategies, failure analysis, and process improvements; coordinated directly with Taiwan HQ to accelerate product delivery
• Designed and deployed a company-wide debug wiki, standardizing repair SOPs across multiple sections
• Oversaw parts inventory and repair workflow for META, NetApp, Dropbox, and QCT servers.
• Supported QA by resolving customer inquiries and optimizing internal processes to increase production throughput and prevent RMA limbo
• Provided advanced troubleshooting and hands-on training for 14 server models across compute and AI product lines

### Software Engineer @ FlowKat
Jan 2021 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
‣ Developed a multi-platform desktop application under tech accelerator OS Labs (opensourcelabs.io) to visualize metrics and messages of client Kafka clusters using a Node.js backend powered by Electron
‣ Used React Router for client-side rendering, creating a performant UX
‣ Implemented Plotly.js to render SVGs in order to graph Prometheus metrics and allow users to interact with and export graphs and metrics
‣ Styled frontend GUI in a responsive and spacious manner to improve accessibility for end users who are hard-of-sight using custom SCSS for better organization and modularization with React UI framework Bulma
‣ Used Docker to containerize a sample application as well as Kafka cluster for scalability, portability, and effective resource management as well as ease of deployment to any environment to in order to more easily work across different environments
‣ Refactored application to use Prometheus instead of StatD, Graphite, and ELK for its operational narrowness, scalable data collection, light-weight resource usage, high availability, and low rate of failure, and its native powerful querying language
‣ Ensured application functionality by making unit tests using Jest/Enzyme and end-point testing using Supertest in order to shorten debugging time while pushing feature updates to follow CI/CD practices
‣ Acted as scrum master following agile practices, creating and assigning efficiently modularized Trello tasks shortening and better organizing the development cycles and took charge of the resolution of progress blockers with development teams

### NetScrape @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
‣ Created single page application using React to reduce dev up time leveraging its reusable container patterns and native statefulness
‣ Built PostgreSQL relational database for its ACID compliance and ability to handle complex queries and reports of netflix media data
‣ Performed API requests with unogsNG to fetch and cache Netflix movie/show results to reduce future subsequent 3rd party API calls

### Actualize | Self-help Open Forum @ Open Source
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
‣ Built a single-page application with React taking advantage of virtual DOM which allows for faster rendering and manipulation
‣ Implemented Google Maps API in order to render current location & coordinates of any user saved trips on a fully functioning map
‣ Utilized React Hooks, Router & Suspense conditional rendering features, allowing localized rerenders in components
‣ Designed a SQL database reinforcing ACID compliance protocols ensuring the transaction’s consistency, integrity, and security
‣ Designed a Node.js server with RESTful architecture increasing flexibility and scalability with stateless client-server communication
‣ Tested server routes using Supertest library to ensure integrity of API development which allowed for greater flexibility for design decisions of front-end, early error detection, and an organized code base
‣ Integrated Jest test-suites for TDD methodology to create unit and integration tests by checking schema validation, constructing planning sessions with the team to define behaviors pre-implementation, enforcing clean and well-structured code organization.


## Education
### Biomedical/Medical Engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/george-jin-zhao

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Last updated: 2026-04-11