About

Jiakai Zhang is a highly skilled Senior Software Engineer at Google with over 6 years of relevant experience. He is an expert in Java, JavaScript, Python, Spring, Node.js, HTML, CSS, Bootstrap, jQuery, Docker & Kubernetes, SQL, and NoSQL techniques. Jiakai has hands-on experience in Web Development, Microservices, Distributed System, Cloud Computing, and System Design. His personal interests mainly lie in Full-stack Techs and Large-scale Software Architecture. Currently, Jiakai works at Google as a Senior Software Engineer, leading Logging and Metrics Infra at Google Shopping. Prior to this, he worked as a Software Engineer at Google Shopping and eBay. At eBay, he worked for the Data Infrastructure team, empowering the global data services of eBay. He led the entire software life cycle development and independently delivered a web app in Prod/QA env, which optimized the manipulation of sitewide DAL configs for thousands of major app pools. Jiakai also developed the critical RESTful web services/APIs for core CRUD functions with automatic ticket tracking and email notification in Prod/QA env. He drove the security initiative to authenticate the API by closely working with external teams. Jiakai followed industry agile practice and code review process to satisfy evolving requirements. He was also a major contributor to an E2E solution, which greatly reduced average sitewide operation time in Prod/QA envs by more than 90%. Jiakai completed his Master of Science (MS) in Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon University in 2016 and his Bachelor of Science (BS) in Geographical Information System from Wuhan University in 2014. He is proficient in Software Engineering, Web, Javascript, SQL, infra, Spring, Kubernetes, Docker, NoSQL, Microservices, NodeJS, Java, qa, Python, test, MySQL, Spring Boot, and ui. Jiakai is open to new opportunities and can be contacted at jiakai.zh@gmail.com. He is a dedicated and skilled software engineer with a passion for full-stack tech and large-scale software architecture.