# Zhizhi(Poppy) Wu

> Fullstack & AI

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/zhizhipoppy

Experienced in developing web applications using JavaScript, TypeScript, React, Next,Node, and Express.
Familiar with REST API, GraphQL and MongoDB.
Experienced in designing dynamic, responsive and creative wireframe, mockup and prototypes with user-centric and holistic approach for large scale production using design tools like Figma.
Experienced in converting UI/UX design into functioning applications and MVPs for further project integration.

Education background: computer science, education, psychology and math.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Building AI-powered features to help clients expedite audit-ready milestones.

### Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Developed and optimized frontend instrumentation and real-user monitoring (RUM) using Next.js, ensuring seamless tracking of user interactions while
- maintaining SSR (Server-Side Rendering) and SSG (Static Site Generation) performance.
- Integrated GraphQL APIs to efficiently fetch and aggregate real-time analytics data, reducing
unnecessary network requests and improving ad tracking precision.
- Implemented custom event tracking via Adobe Analytics (eVars & props), mapping raw data from
Kafka topics to structured frontend analytics variables.
- Engineered high-performance UI event listeners to capture user actions across Walmart’s international
platforms, enhancing ad performance measurement and attribution accuracy.
- Designed an automation pipeline to extract custom metrics from Adobe UI, transform the data, and push insights to AWS/GCP for a GenAI-powered ad optimization project.
- Optimized frontend performance and data collection efficiency, leveraging code splitting, lazy loading, and GraphQL query optimization to improve load times and scalability

### Software Engineer @ Flexport
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
Frontend Infrastructure (part of Platform Engineering team)
- Migrated monolith apps to microfrontend architecture, enabling teams to create Next.js app
with minimal efforts and scale their apps independently.
- Automated the provisioning and configuration of AWS resources using Terraform CDK to
ensure reliability across development, staging and deployment for each team.
- Decoupled and automated frontend build and deploy from a decade's old monorail pipeline
using Buildkite, reduced commit-to-deploy time.
- Developed and curated an internal centralized React component library to streamline frontend
development workflows and foster UI/UX consistency.
- Built Express JS middleware to handle authentication, rate limiting and logging in GraphQL
gateway service.

### Software Engineer @ Walmart Global Tech
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Fullstack Development
- Migrated RESTful API to GraphQL. Designed federated graphs and schemas (e.g., lists, item-
service, etc), and built them using Apollo GraphQL, Apollo Gateway and Apollo Federation.
- Implemented Query resolvers, Mutation resolvers and Reference resolvers to populate data for
specific schema fields using microservices framework.
- Implemented server-side-rendering in Next.js application with React-Query.
- Created and maintained React functional and class components in TypeScript.

### Co-Founder & Software Developer @ PsyKeep
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Side project to foster mental health awareness
- Designed, developed and published the meditation and journaling App Notey. Responsible for
the UI/UX design and front-end development in Dart and JavaScript.
- Launched and maintained the App Notey in both Apple App store and Google Play.
- Led a group of engineers and therapists to build an online consultation platform in WeChat
App. The online consultation platform serves more than 100 clients.


## Education
### Master of Science in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Master of Arts
UCLA

### Bachelor of Arts
Zhejiang University

### Beijing No.4 High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhizhi-poppy-wu-8258982b

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Last updated: 2026-04-11