Shaofan Zhang
Engineering Manager at Uber
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShaofan Zhang is an engineering manager based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience building and scaling production systems across consumer music and search. He led cross-functional teams at Amazon Music responsible for personalization and search features serving ~200 million monthly users, and now manages engineering at Uber. Technically grounded in Java, Python, AWS, and search technologies like Elasticsearch, he has hands-on experience migrating core platforms globally and improving spell-correction and popularity precomputation pipelines. Early work includes building Chinese input systems for handwriting and voice, reflecting a long-standing interest in human-computer interaction and language-aware systems. An active coder who publishes algorithmic Java solutions on GitHub, he combines algorithmic rigor with product-driven execution. Collected academic experience from Nankai, SMU, and a Master’s in Information Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh complements his operational leadership.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences, Bachelor's Degree Computer and Information Sciences at Nankai UniversityExchange student School of Information System, Exchange student School of Information System at Singapore Management UniversityMaster's Degree Information Sciences, Master's Degree Information Sciences at University of Pittsburgh
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
algorithm10
data-structures10
javas10
data-tree10
algorithms10
tree-structure10
dynamic-programming10
data-structure10
java10
binary-search10
tree10
graph-algorithms9
backtracking9
hashtable9
recursion9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
awangdev/leet-code
Apr 2015 - Dec 2022
Java Solutions to problems on LintCode/LeetCode
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:356 commits, 13 PRs, 337 pushes in 7 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Shaofan's primary contribution to the `awangdev/leet-code` repository, which focuses on Java solutions for LintCode and LeetCode problems, is the implementation of algorithm solutions, specifically focusing on topics like dynamic programming, binary search trees, and graph algorithms. They added several Java files containing solutions to problems like '3 Sum', 'Invert Binary Tree', and 'Longest Palindromic Substring', with detailed comments explaining the thinking process and approach. Additionally, the user implemented utilities to generate table contents.
javalintcodeleetcodejava-solutiondynamicprogramming
awangdev/3d-modeling
Jul 2015 - Feb 2016
This project is using ThreeJS to build 3D Building Floor Plan models from Floor Blue Print images.
Contributions:19 commits, 19 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
3dthreejs
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