# Muxing Zhao

> Software Engineer II at Microsoft

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2023 – Present | Silicon Valley, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Silicon Valley, California, United States

### Project Manager and Tech Lead @ Blockeley University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States
• Developed multiple programs to produce resources, features, and visuals necessary for Blockeley and the production of the live Blockeley Commencement and charity music festival.
• Organized team members and facilitated cross-team communications between multiple project groups for Blockeley, the live-streamed Commencement Ceremony, and Blockeley Music Festival.

Tech Lead of Blockeley (a 1:1 recreation of the UC Berkeley Campus in Minecraft), which held the 2020 Blockeley Music Festival, and 2020/2021 Blockeley Commencement. Our projects have collectively accumulated over 400k views on Twitch and our story has been covered by multiple media outlets including DailyCal, ABC, CBS, CCTV, NBC, and KQED.

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Jose, California, United States
• Developed an automated and generic End-to-End regression testing implementation in Java utilizing MySQL and Google Firestore, supporting testing for a dynamically expandable number of use cases by various services utilizing the same PayPal domain. Provides detailed database validations and tracking for all failed regression tests.
• Worked on several JavaScript Postman collections to test various PayPal APIs from end to end. Created a unified FIT testing framework with automated user caching and a shared central repository of reusable utility functions.

### Software Engineer @ Boro
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Chicago Area
• Built a monorepo style full-stack isomorphic web app framework with Node.js utilizing Express, React, Apollo, and Sequelize, with automated package management, linting, tests, commits, and changelogs.
• Automated build and Blue/Green deploy CI/CD pipeline through AWS and BitBucket, set up AWS and Docker container orchestration, VPC security, server instancing, and networking via AWS Console/CLI.

### Research Development Software Engineer @ QiYuan Information Service
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
• Researched and developed backend blockchain systems and tests in Golang; collaborated on a research paper, ‘Deterministic Proof of Work’, on a new hybrid consensus protocol.
• Authored an Algorand technical guide detailing cryptographic sortition, VRFs, and Byzantine Agreement.


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science, Data Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/muxing
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Last updated: 2026-03-22