David Zhang
Software Engineer L5 at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDavid Zhang is a Software Engineer L5 at Google with eight years of experience building reliable, large-scale backend systems across ads, payments, and financial data platforms. A University of Waterloo CS and Wilfrid Laurier BBA finance double-degree candidate, he blends engineering rigor with product and finance fluency—valuable for monetization and integrity-focused systems. At Google he progressed rapidly from intern roles into senior engineering tiers, contributing to display ads creative serving infrastructure and experiment reliability. Past internships at Meta, Shopify, and Yahoo Finance show a pattern of shipping backend solutions for payments, billing, and market data. He also founded and operated a game server project in his teens, demonstrating early full-stack ownership and operational experience. Based in San Francisco, he combines strong systems engineering chops with an eye for fraud prevention and financial-product reliability.
8 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, Finance, Bachelor's Degree, Business Administration, Finance at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (10)
backend6
pulse5
text-files5
wave4
react4
android-app2
music2
python2
audio2
flutter-apps1
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
CoderIntuition/api
Aug 2020 - May 2021
CoderIntuition Spring Backend API
Contributions:127 commits, 52 PRs, 206 pushes in 8 months
backend
CoderIntuition/web
Feb 2021 - May 2021
CoderIntuition React Web App
Contributions:61 commits, 20 PRs, 201 pushes in 2 months
react
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