Su Zhang

Experience

Software Engineer at GoogleMar. 2015 - present

Leading a team working on backend infrastructures to conform to various legal requirements from different jurisdictions for products like Gmail, Chat, Meet, Duo, Google Fi, Voice and RCS
Led a team and built the dynamic email product inside Gmail that allows users to see up-to-date content fetched from a server and interact with the email without leaving the inbox, using full-stack Java and JavasScript
Developed Full-stack web applications from client-side (Dart and Angular) to frontend servers and then to backend storage (Spanner) for Google Fiber's signup and account management flows

Software Engineering Intern at GoogleJan. 2014 - Apr. 2014

Enhanced Google's intern matching tool built with Java App Engine, Guava, Guice, Mockito and Closure Library
Migrated intern candidate in-memory search back end from Google's production infrastructure to App Engine

Software Engineering Intern at GoogleMay 2013 - Aug. 2013

Started internal project from scratch using Go and App Engine for reviewing and approving publications, in much the same way as code review, before they get displayed on Research at Google.

Software Engineering Intern at YelpSep. 2012 - Dec. 2012

Implemented QR code check-in system for Yelp elite parties and user events which involves programming Python, MySQL, Amason S3, Selenium, SMTP, jQuery, Prototype, and Twitter Bootstrap.

Software Developer at Uken GamesJan. 2012 - Apr. 2012

Developed game features from front to back for Mighty Monster powered by Ruby on Rails, MySQL, jQuery, Ajax, SASS, and CSS3 animations
Paired with senior developer to rewrite RESTful server, backed by Rails and Resque, for push notifications on Android, iOS, and BlackBerry
Wrote MapReduce scripts for MongoDB to analyze timeline of user requests
Enhanced SVG-based diagram of real-time server errors displayed on dashboard using d3.js
Refactored Uken's official website by fixing unmaintainable HTML and CSS and upgrading Rails to adopt asset pipeline

Software Engineering at Harris Corp.May 2011 - Aug. 2011

Developed GUI widgets using MFC, ActiveX, and C# .NET
Implemented new graph nodes for network visualization software with C++ which involves Windows API, MSSQL, TCP/IP, and SNMP
Learnt PHP and improved internal QA tools powered by Apache, MySQL, and PHP

Software Developer at NCR Corp.Sep. 2010 - Dec. 2010

Enhanced Java EE application for remote check deposit powered by JSP, Spring, EJB, and Hibernate.

Projects

ActivitilaNov. 2012 - present

Redis-cached version of my activity feed merged from various sources written in CoffeeScript and Node.js (activities.zhang.su).

Scorched End Audio Library (SEAL)May 2011 - present

C library and Ruby gem for 3D audio rendering based on OpenAL.

Visual OfficeOct. 2012

Game-like visualization tool (visual-office.appspot.com) for office seating plan produced in October's Yelp hackathon exploiting CSS3 animations and Compass.

zhang.suMay. 2012

CSS3 Homepage (zhang.su) built with Slim, Sass, and CoffeeScript.

LoverApr. 2012

Two-player survival game (zhang.su/lover) on HTML5 canvas produced in Molyjam 2012 game hackathon.

Sudoku and Sudoku SolverApr. 2010

Form-based Sudoku game and its solver developed with C# .NET.