Summary
Darming Zhao is a Software Engineer with eight years of experience building developer platforms and consumer-facing systems, currently contributing to Databricks’ developer platform after driving features for TikTok Creator Marketplace. He has strong backend and payments experience from earlier work at AWS on Payments and Fraud, and a history of shipping mobile and web applications from internships. Based in San Francisco with a BASc in Computer Engineering from UBC, Darming navigates both large-scale product codebases and platform tooling. Colleagues would describe him as pragmatic and delivery-focused, able to move from prototyping to production in complex, high-throughput environments. He blends product-minded engineering with a curiosity for developer experience, often translating creator-facing needs into scalable platform solutions. Notably, his career progression reflects rapid growth from internships to impactful roles at high-scale firms in just a few years.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Computer Engineering at The University of British Columbia