# Wei Zou

> Staff Software Engineer at Hippo Insurance

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

Experienced Senior Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the internet industry. Skilled in Web application development, DevOps, nodejs, data processing pipeline. Strong engineering professional with a Bachelor of Science (BS) focused in Computer Science from UCLA.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2023 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer II @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Hippo Insurance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ LogDNA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Development/maintenance of the internal work queue messaging system written in Node.js
Integration test for this project to ensure a high code coverage (using Docker).
As one of the go-to persons for knowledge transfer and resolving production incidents.
• Debugged, investigated, and rewrote the archiving system
Wrote JS scripts that validate the correctness of the functionality and generate reports on a daily basis.
Rewrote a worker (running in k8s) to scan and compress raw data files using Node.js and Redis(Redlock).
• Promoting test driven development. Started our end-to-end test project using Cypress.
• Participated in Prometheus metrics collection to monitor system’s performance
• In the rotation of the release engineers to release code to multiple environments
Worked with dev teams to collect applications/versions to release.
Coordinated with infra team and dev teams for any release related incidents, rollback & hotfixes.
• Participated in the ElasticSearch upgrade project

### Senior Software Engineer @ Walmart eCommerce
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Led the development of HTML/SVG based Web application to serve the in-store map feature in Walmart App. Built a Node.js/GraphQL API service for Black Friday peak throughput.
Developed React.js/Node.js based Web Application.
Led the DevOps work to facilitate team projects’ need. Led service migrations from old clusters to new clusters.
Mentoring

### Software Engineer @ Walmart eCommerce
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on nodejs services for Walmart Mobile apps (nodejs, hapi, MySQL, Java, JMS queue). Focus on application development, as well as automating DevOps works such as server provisioning / setup.

### Software Engineer @ PayPal
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked in a team building a new generation of payment application and payment experience, using node.js, LESS, and AngularJS. I was mainly responsible for application development, as well as performance related data analysis and data visualization (HiveQL, Python, node.js, AngularJS, MongoDB).

### Software Engineer Intern @ PayPal
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Data Analysis and Visualization project on Checkout User Experience.
(Python, SQL).

### Mobile Development Intern @ Symantec
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Culver City
• Developed an auto-upgraded Android application to collect information from Android devices. Built a database driven website to display the collected data (HTML, JavaScript, PHP, MySQL).
• Worked on an Android wallet application.
• Research on SMS security.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wei-zou-83b9385a

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