# John Z. Shen

> Software engineer at Everlane

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

I love building products and watching people use those products. I feel comfortable across the web development stack, from database to client facing code. At Minted, I gave customers the ability to buy an add-on product post-checkout, which generated over $224k revenue in its first year. I wrote code that generated thousands of product images for the new Home Decor vertical. I worked on a front end redesign that consolidated many products into one page that was more responsive and faster to load than the previous pages. 

When I'm not working on code, I'm cooking, biking, rock climbing, and generally being a bay area stereotype. I enjoy thinking about how to make the environment a little less doomed. I am looking for positions in San Francisco and the East Bay.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Everlane
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Minted
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
Full stack
Backend: mySQL, Python w/ Bottle 
Frontend: Javascript, Backbone, React w/ Flux and Redux, jQuery
AWS: EC2, S3, SQS

Projects:
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Framed Keepsakes
- Customers can buy framed prints of a stationery order. 
- Enabled post-checkout ordering, no need to reauthenticate or re-enter information.

Home Decor
- From a designer uploaded fabric pattern, create 21 different other products based on that fabric pattern. 
- Automated a product creation flow for designers. Designers can upload a fabric pattern and those products generated and available for sale.
- Set up autoscaling clusters for image generation tasks.

### Health Extension Volunteer @ Peace Corps
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013 | Mahevadoany, Madagascar
- Designed a low cost solar dryer for fruit drying
- Created a profitable business selling a dried banana product
- Educated locals on public health interventions, focusing on water/sanitation, vaccinations, and nutrition.


## Education
### Bachelor's Degree in Biology: Neuroscience
Washington University in St. Louis

### App Academy


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-31