# Ray Zhang

> Senior Software Engineer at Sprout Social

Location: Greater Chicago Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rayzhang1

I graduated from UW-Madison in 2019 with a Bachelor's of Science in Computer Science, where I was a teaching assistant for two and a half years for the introductory computer science course. 

I worked for over a year as a back end engineer on the Application Service team at Uptake, where I enhanced metadata driven applications. There, I handled the deployments (Docker and Kubernetes), feature work and production fixes for multiple RESTful HTTP API microservices written in Scala. 

Following Uptake, I worked as a backend engineer on the Surveys team at Reputation. There, I established a reporting framework to display employee attribution data based on surveys and the people mentioned in them. I also migrated and synchronized the survey object model to a more feature-rich object model.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2023 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Sprout Social, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Reputation.com
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer @ Uptake
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Chicago Area
Software engineer working on the back end service that powers metadata driven applications
* Enhanced metadata-driven applications by establishing new API endpoints for clients
* Improved role-based security by considering the users’ permissions and the underlying data hierarchy
* Created new engineer documentation explaining nuances of the service to minimize onboarding time
* Established a proxy to the user service and high frequency data service to centralize traffic and requests
* Implemented a GraphQL-esque protocol which reduced loading times in the UI by minimizing API calls

### Student @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019 | Madison, Wisconsin Area

### Software Engineer Intern @ Uptake
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Chicago Area
Developed UI components with React and VueJS

### Case Manager Intern @ Lincoln Financial Advisors
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### Intern @ Plumwise
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Hinsdale Central
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014

### Hinsdale Central


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22