# Mary Zhong

> Staff Software Engineer @ Clerk

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/maryzhong

Software engineer who solves tough problems by building user centric products.

Currently building the easiest and best way to charge your customers: https://clerk.com/billing/.

MIT alum (B.S. '19, M.Eng. '20), ultimate frisbee player, coffee lover, gamer

## Work Experience
### Senior Staff Software Engineer @ Clerk.com
Jan 2025 – Present
Building the backend at Clerk! I've worked across the product, including core authentication services and organizations/B2B features.

Currently leading the billing team as we build the easiest and best way to charge your customers: https://clerk.com/billing/.

### Staff Software Engineer @ Clerk.com
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025

### Senior Software Engineer @ Clerk.com
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024

### Senior Software Engineer @ ASAPP
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
Working to integrate external communication channels like SMS and Apple Messages for Business with the ASAPP platform.

### Software Engineer @ ASAPP
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021

### Student Researcher @ MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
MIT Usable Programming: researching how to teach and leverage code review effectively in classroom settings

### Teaching Assistant @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Graduate teaching assistant for 6.031: Software Construction at MIT. 

http://web.mit.edu/6.031

### Software Engineer Intern @ ASAPP
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
I worked as a full stack engineering intern at ASAPP! The first project I worked on was a demo of a new company product, done in TypeScript. This included building a frontend component and adding new endpoints and database connections to the backend of the demo. The second project I worked on was standing up a new service, done in Golang.

### IDEA MATH Instructor @ IDEA MATH
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019
Instructor at the IDEA MATH summer and weekend programs teaching competition mathematics. I teach middle and high schoolers a range of topics such as algebra, geometry, combinatorics, and number theory up to the AIME level.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Khan Academy
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California
Full stack software engineering intern working on developing internal tools for Khan Academy’s content creators. Coded in React, Python, and Kotlin.

### Software Engineering Intern @ KAYAK
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Cambridge, MA, USA
I did backend and frontend work with the data team, including work on importing provider data, improving data parsing, modification, and storage, and improving web consoles for data administrators. I worked primarily with Java, SQL, and HTML with Velocity.


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Human Computer Interaction
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### The Hockaday School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/mzhong9723

---
Source: https://flows.cv/maryzhong
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/maryzhong/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-31