# Zihua (James) Huang

> Senior Software Engineer at Unity

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

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Unity
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, CA
Senior full-stack engineer building large-scale monetization and analytics platforms using React, MUI, Node.js, NestJS, MongoDB and microservices. Owned design and delivery of multi-product dashboards, reporting platforms, and cross-app management workflows. Modernized backend messaging pipelines (Kafka, Pub/Sub), expanded data analytics through Druid, improved system reliability using Aerospike and internal load balancing, and introduced AppSec tooling to elevate code health and security across teams.

### Software Engineer @ IDbyDNA
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Carlos, CA
Full-stack engineer developing high-availability genomic analysis tools used in clinical and research pipelines. Led migration from legacy Ember/JavaScript to React/TypeScript, improved backend reporting with NestJS, GraphQL, AWS, and built performant interfaces for searching, generating, and managing large-scale genomic datasets.

### DevOps Engineering Fellow @ Insight Data Science
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Protected sensitive data with dynamic credentials by HashCorp Vault and Consul
Containerized and built a high availability infrastructure through Docker and Terraform
Automated code testing and deployment on AWS using Jenkins, and GitHub

### Cloud Infrastructure Engineer Intern @ Qualys
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Automated application deployment using ​Puppet​, Ansible, Docker​ and maintained services that were running.
Eliminated 2-3 hours of manual puppet file changes each week by automating updates using ​Python.
Spun up and managed thousands of virtual machines using ​VMWare​'s vSphere Automation SDK.

### Volunteer Full-Stack Engineering Mentor @ CodeNow
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Mentored high school students in developing and deploying ​MVC​ framework web apps using ​Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, and Git.
Maintained high quality code on core Ruby on Rails git repository by style checking and bug fixing.

### Learner @ Bay Area Video Coalition
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
In BAVC's one year Digital Pathways Program, I learned how to use Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, Premiere, and web technologies: HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, and PHP.

### Fellow @ Enterprise for Youth
Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
In Enterprise for Youth (EHSS), I practiced my career skills and explore different careers.

### Learner @ Zendesk
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
In Zendesk's Spring Break Tech Bootcamp, I learned HTML5, CSS3, JavaScript, Linux commands and created a website using GitHub.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### High School in Computer Science
San Francisco International High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014

### English
City College of San Francisco
Jan 2011 – Jan 2013


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/zihua
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zihua/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22