# Yuwen Zhang

> Eng @ Succinct

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yuwen

I'm a software engineer at Succinct, building performant, reliable, and secure systems.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Succinct
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Student Researcher @ University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Berkeley, California, United States
•	Created a compiler to enable constant inter-verifier communication for zero knowledge proofs on secret shared data. Used this compiler to augment Prio, a private analytics platform, by enabling batch sanitization of client input. Additionally applied this compiler to create a state-of-the-art solution to the private approximate heavy hitters problem. 
•	Implemented solution in Rust and Tokio and evaluated solution on Azure and GCP. Achieved 2-3x verifier speedup over previous heavy hitters solutions.

### Summer Engineering Intern @ Strava
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco
Backend Intern with the Athlete Services team. Developed new cosmetics for draggable / zoomable maps, while optimizing for both aesthetics and render speed. Collaborated closely with frontend, Android, and iOS engineers to develop an API contract.

### Summer Engineering Intern @ American Express
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Virtual
Used Go, Spring Boot Java, and Couchbase to create a testing tool for replaying credit card transactions.  Wrote thorough tests and communicated effectively in an Agile scrum team with 5 other interns.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yuwen01

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Last updated: 2026-04-05