michaelwzhu@berkeley.edu

2025 — NowFlow LabsFounder

2025 — Now

Consumer app studio

~ 1500 users, $3000 in revenue.

1. practicedebate.ai

DebatePro: AI-simulated, real-time voice debate training for competitive debate students

2. ascendapp.io | https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ascend-peptide-tracker/id6755852284

Ascend: peptide and health tracking app

2023 — 2024AtlassianSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2024

Built core components for Atlassian's AI-powered Rovo search product, including the query suggestion system with recent search filtering, keyboard accessibility, and analytics instrumentation

Developed frontend and backend features for third-party search integrations (Google, Microsoft, Slack), including GraphQL connector work, ATI field refactoring, and search result formatting fixes

Drove FedRAMP and FIPS compliance efforts across multiple codebases, migrating cryptographic implementations from MD5 to SHA-256, upgrading feature flag libraries, and updating security configurations

2022 — 2023UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and SocietyDATA100 uGSI (Undergraduate Student Instructor)

2022 — 2023

Teach data analysis + visualization, probability, feature engineering, and machine learning modeling

Provide personalized help on labs and homework problems to students in office hours

2022 — 2022UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and SocietyDATA100 Tutor

2022 — 2022

2022 — 2022UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and SocietyDATA100 Academic Intern

2022 — 2022

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor of Arts - BA

Irvington High School

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts - BA