Haiyu Zhang
@haiyuzhang
Senior full‑stack engineer building scalable user-focused platforms.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a senior full-stack software engineer with 10+ years of experience at Airbnb, Google, and Amazon Web Services, focused on building scalable, user-focused platforms using React, Next.js, TypeScript, Node.js, Java, Python, Go, and Ruby.
At Airbnb I delivered high-impact full-stack features, built a GraphQL gateway, and created a Server-Driven UI framework that reduced release cycles by 50% and improved load times and API response times significantly. At Google and AWS I improved developer productivity and performance for cloud consoles and delivered production-ready infrastructure tooling and real-time web applications.
I am a collaborative mentor who accelerates release cycles, optimizes performance, increases developer productivity, and consistently ships reliable, high-impact systems for millions of users.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Delivered full-stack features and platform tooling using React, Next.js, GraphQL, TypeScript, Node.js, and Ruby on Rails, improving load times by 35% and reducing release cycles by 50% via a Server-Driven UI framework.
Software Engineer
Aug 2016 - Jul 2018 (1 year 11 months)
Enhanced GCP Console developer productivity and built a real-time log streaming tool using Angular, TypeScript, WebSockets, and Go, reducing troubleshooting time by 30% and lowering rendering latency by 20%.
Software Development Engineer
Amazon Web Services
Nov 2014 - Aug 2016 (1 year 9 months)
Contributed to AWS CloudFormation Designer with Java and JavaScript, implementing JSON schema parsing and UI features that improved template rendering performance by 30% and supported 100+ resource types.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of California, Riverside
Doctor of Philosophy, Electrical Engineering
2009 - 2014
Completed a PhD in Electrical Engineering with research-focused coursework and dissertation work from 2009 to 2014.
Tianjin University
Bachelor of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Automation
2005 - 2009
Earned a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical Engineering and Automation between 2005 and 2009.
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Location
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