# Zhoucai Ni

> Software Engineer

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

Zhoucai Ni is a software engineer based in San Francisco, with a degree in Computer Science and a minor in Earth Science from Dartmouth College.

More at zhoucai.me

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ State Affairs
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Zeal AI
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
•Built and scaled a comprehensive restaurant discovery and analytics platform that grew from 183 to 1,894 weekly visitors, with daily active users reaching 324 at peak engagement.

•Developed semantic search infrastructure using vector embeddings with pagination, delivering sub-200ms response times for contextual restaurant review analysis

• Architected scalable microservices platform using Python FastAPI with async request handling, enabling real-time restaurant availability updates through distributed API integrations

•Built interactive analytics dashboard with SQL-powered data aggregation, providing restaurant owners with real-time reservation metrics and business insights

•Created responsive chatbot interface using Next.js, TypeScript, Shadcn, and Tailwind CSS, achieving 70% reduction in UI lag and sub-50ms message load times

### Research Assistant @ The Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
Supply chain research

### Teacher Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
9x cumulative teaching assistant across Introduction to Computer Science and Full Stack Development.

### Full-stack Developer @ Team Legislate
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States

### Student Tutor @ Mathnasium - The Math Learning Center
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Cape Coral, Florida, United States
Math


## Education
### Computer Science
Dartmouth College

### High School Diploma in Computer Science
Cape Coral High School

### International Baccalaureate


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10