# Zhenzhen Y. > Senior Software Engineer at Pantheon Platform Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zhenzhen Enjoy programming, learning, collaboration and challenges. LANGUAGES: JavaScript, CoffeeScript, Python, GraphQL, SQL. LIBRARIES & FRAMEWORKS: React, Tailwind [CSS], Emotion [CSS in JS], Backbone, Apollo [GraphQL], MySQL, Node, Express, Inquirer, D3, Bootstrap, Materialize, OAuth. TOOLS: Git, Yarn, NPM, Bash. TESTING: React Testing Library, Enzyme, Jest. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Pantheon Platform Jan 2021 – Present ### Software Engineer @ Pantheon Platform Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area • Take charge of planning and implementing frontend work for new features in the squad, collaborating with backend engineers to design suitable APIs, communicating with designer for design handoff and UI questions. • Work on new dashboard, to create new features, and also adapt old dashboard features to new dashboard (React, Apollo [GraphQL]). • Maintain old dashboard in Backbone, add new features in React, and refactor old Backbone features to React (React, Backbone). • Create new components in design system/toolkit, being used in new dashboard and old dashboard (React, Emotion [CSS in JS], Storybook). ### Software Engineer Intern @ Pantheon Platform Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 • Modernized frontend: refactored Backbone and CoffeeScript to React on user dashboard (with five different views for the tab). • Wrote tests for React components. • Won the first place at Pantheon Hackweek with the PoC project (building new feature of NavBar Announcement). • Analyzed thousands rows of business intelligence data, used MySQL to discover edge cases among related tables and connections between different tables. ### Software Engineer Apprentice @ Techtonica Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • 6 months software engineering program, focusing on algorithm, data structures, and computer science fundamentals. • Built full-stack web applications with JavaScript, MySQL, and the MERN stack: MongoDB, Express, React, Node. VIZTORY - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/visual-housing-price) (https://viztory.herokuapp.com/) Created a data visualization application to show house price change from 1975 to 2017. Built with Node, Express, MySQL, React, D3, Materialize, OAuth. • Built components from scratch, including D3 bar charts. • Features include customized bar chart animation according to different year, state level data and city level data. • Cleaned and analyzed 16000+ rows of house price index data. WALL OF WISDOM - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/techtonica-quotes) Created a quotes publishing application to share inspirational quotes within the community. Built with Node, Express, MongoDB, Bootstrap, EJS, jQuery. • Ideated a mobile responsive single page navigation web app that allows users to post inspiration quotes. • Led a group of three peers to scope down the project, build features, and fix bugs. • Built features such as input flow, user feedback, and animated carousel of quotes. • Used Git and GitHub to streamline teamwork, version control, and code reviews. REACT CALCULATOR - 2018 (https://github.com/zzyou/calculator-react) Created a calculator application with React. • Built components from scratch, including buttons, input box and animations. • Based on the previous project jQuery Calculator, translated jQuery code to React code, and polished the operation function to cover edge cases. • Features include consecutive operations, operations on negative numbers and decimals. ### Web Development Trainee @ MotherCoders Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area • 8 weeks hands on web development program, focusing on HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. • Skills based workshops on UX, design thinking, prototyping, Git, and web applications security taught by industry leaders from tech companies. ### Resident Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | West Lafayette, IN • Addressed residents' needs and supported residents with resources and campus issues troubleshooting, including emergency situations. • Organized events for residents at University Housing, such as International Festival, Chinese New Year Celebration, Trip to Chicago, S.A.F.E. course. ### Research Assistant @ Purdue University Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | West Lafayette, IN • Worked with statistical analysis software (SPSS Statistics) to analyze data with 2903 observations and 1470 variables for a project on international and domestic students. • Conducted analysis such as frequencies, standard deviation, mean, bar chart, percentage, cross tabulation. ### Project Assistant @ China HIV/AIDS Information Network (CHAIN) Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | Beijing, China • Organized non-governmental organization (NGO) training on “Communication Skills and Information Utilization” in China. • Collected NGO data, to edit and publish “2009/2010 China HIV/AIDS NGO Directory”. ### Research Assistant @ Renmin University of China Jan 2007 – Jan 2009 | Beijing, China • Managed investigation of 150+ citizens from 4 communities in China, as part of the computer-assisted survey of 1000+ samples. • Conducted in-depth interviews with 20+ female sex workers during the research on HIV/AIDS prevention and intervention in China. ### Team Lead @ International Sociological Association RC28 Conference Jan 2008 – Jan 2009 | Beijing, China • Led a team of 5 responsible for managing 300+ conference speakers' abstracts, as well as registration fees and logistic arrangements. • Timely resolved a variety of inquires from 300+ participants, while keeping track of the status of every question, and connecting these questions to participants' information to better understand their context. ## Education ### Master's degree in Anthropology Purdue University ### Master's degree in Sociology Renmin University of China ### Bachelor's degree in Journalism Renmin University of China ### JavaScript in jQuery, SQL, Python Codecademy ### Full Stack Web Development Certification in Computer Software Engineering freeCodeCamp ### Python Coursera ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhenzhenyou --- Source: https://flows.cv/zhenzhen JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zhenzhen/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22