# Simon Z.

> Software Engineer

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/simonz

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ MongoDB
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Datadog
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Dapper Labs
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, California
• Building an easy-to-use, performant, and resilient platform that enables network engineers to monitor the health and obtain various metrics from all the network devices across Facebook’s datacentres.
• Developing and maintaining a distributed data collection system consisting of multiple components responsible for scheduling of collection jobs, data retrieval from network devices, aggregation and normalization of raw data, permanent storage, and monitoring of alerts.
• Implementing a new sharding mechanism to improve the reliability and scalability of collection scheduler (Job Manager).

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California
Designed and implemented a platform for creating, updating, and running experiments for Ads prediction models.

### Undergraduate Researcher @ National University of Singapore
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Singapore
• Studied the maximum agreement subtree problem and efficient algorithms for solving the case where both trees are binary.
• Implemented an O(n log n) algorithm for the maximum agreement subtree problem in Java.
• Submitted a research report describing the details of the algorithm and its implementation, as
well as testing procedures.

### CPEN 221 Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ The University of British Columbia
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Vancouver, Canada
• Hosted tutorial sessions to discuss software design concepts and demonstrate various programming tasks.
• Answered questions from students regarding software construction principles, design patterns and the Java programming language.
• Reviewed and assessed software programs written by students and provided constructive feedback.

### Software Developer @ A.Y. Technologies Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Vancouver, Canada
• Migrated the backend and database (MySQL) of a wheel and tire retail website from Magento 1 to Magento 2, and wrote custom PHP modules to automate order approval and improve search performance.
• Designed and implemented both the backend (Django REST Framework) and frontend (React and Redux) of a musician’s social network app.
• Improved and added features to an internal email marketing and marketing automation system written in PHP and JavaScript.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Combined Honours in Computer Science and Mathematics
The University of British Columbia
Jan 2014 – Jan 2019

### Exchange Student in Mathematics and Computer Science
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Undergraduate Researcher in Mathematics and Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/smnzhu
- GitHub: https://github.com/smnzhu
- Website: https://smnzhu.com

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Source: https://flows.cv/simonz
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/simonz/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22