# Zhen ZHANG

> Software Engineer at Google

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ blip energy
Jan 2020 – Present | Evanston, Illinois, United States
- Using a persistence framework (Springboot, Java) to build the entire server project from scratch.
- Focusing on early database design, optimization and monitoring on Amazon RDS.
- Creating a pipeline in Python with Pandas for scarping and processing data to support business on EC2.

### Software Engineer @ bilibili Group-MiaoSiLa
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Beijing City, China
- Documented and tested under Jasmine.js for core Web APIs and H5 end APIs, modified redundant code, successfully accelerated 30% of response speed.
- Migrated the interfaces of app end from Yii1 to Yii2, compressed 50% of the original code, enhanced security and consistency of Android and iOS end, increased 40% of development efficiency.
- Conducted concurrent test under apache-AB, optimized database, established index and cache under MySQL and Memcached, doubled throughput keeping latency constant.
- Replaced the generation of important caches (e.g., resource on the homepage) from visiting the page to the regular generation on the server.
- Designed algorithms (e.g., content-based recommendation) to implement event recommendation.
- Reconstructed message system, reduced response time by 30%.
- Built PHP Interfaces with RESTful APIs for real-name authentication, user hierarchy system etc.

### Software Engineer @ LeadFit
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Beijing City, China
- Updated class reservation system, added functions of personal membership and group membership. (PHP in Yaf framework)
- Established gym management system, completed 30% of front-end code (Vue.js) and 70% of APIs (PHP in Yaf framework, based on RESTful API), and documented & tested APIs.


## Education
### Master's Degree in Information Technology
Northwestern University

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Measurement and Control Technology and Instrument
Nanjing University of Information Science and Technology


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zz103

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Last updated: 2026-03-29