# Michael Zhou

> Software Engineer at Celer Network

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelzhou1

Long-time blockchain and cryptocurrency zealot. Seasoned full stack developer specializing in blockchain technology. Passionate about compilers and programming languages.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Celer Network
Jan 2018 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building the most advanced layer-2 scaling and cross-chain solutions for blockchains, enabling interactive, secure and low-cost decentralized applications.

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Worked on Google Docs, Closure Compiler, and a few other projects.

### Graduate Student @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 | Greater Boston Area
Performed research on programming languages, compiler and computer architecture.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area
Added partial TypeScript support to Closure Compiler.
Improved Closure Compiler's ECMAScript 2015 support.
Used GWT to build Closure Compiler as a JavaScript application with no Java dependency.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater New York City Area
Introduced ECMAScript 2015 support to Closure Compiler. Added support for language features including block scoped declarations, class syntax, default parameters and rest parameters.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Duke University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Durham, NC
Data parallel PHP execution on GPUs.

### Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | Durham, NC
Teaching assistant for
- Data Structures
- Computer Architecture
- Operating System
- Fundamentals of Electrical & Computer Engineering
- Robotics and Automation.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, San Francisco Bay Area
Implemented the side-by-side and unified diff UIs for Gerrit Code Review based on CodeMirror with support for fast rendering and range based comments.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Cambridge, Boston, MA, Greater Boston Area
Co-authored Wicked Good XPath - The world's fastest and second smallest JavaScript XPath library to provide XPath support across mainstream browsers.

### Counselor, Teaching Assistant & Technical Assistant @ Research Science Institute
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Shanghai, China
Worked as a counselor for RSI rickoids. Tutored rickoids on writing scientific papers in LaTeX. Offered technical support.


## Education
### Master of Science (SM) in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology

### Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BSE) in Computer Science; Electrical & Computer Engineering
Duke University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-zhou-008
- Website: https://github.com/dominator008

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Last updated: 2026-04-01