A Professional Brief

Borrowing the legal term, this site presents a comprehensive written argument for Yi Zhang’s merits as a professional Software Engineer.

For what it intends to achieve, please refer to this blog post.

Professional Summary

Career span companies of many sizes & stages, from Series A to pre-IPO to Big Tech

Led large scale projects (20+ people) as a Tech Lead, and grew a team from 3 → 15 as a Manager

Extensive experience in:     • Backend architecture, e.g. microservices design & migration     • Scaling data intensive systems, especially for ML/AI use cases     • Engineering tooling, e.g. CI/CD pipelines, productivity tooling

The Interview Triad

Evidence for Yi’s abilities, without having to interview him.

Coding

• Yi works at one of the Big Tech companies, having passed 3 coding interview rounds, each of which consists of 2 medium questions in 45 minutes.
• Yi had received more than 15 SWE job offers throughout his career. Every single one of these interview processes had multiple coding rounds.
• Since 2020, Yi has completed >600 Leetcode questions. See stats below.
• Yi has always had some personal projects going. They are all open source, and viewable on his Github. Most recently Yi implemented a traffic simulator to test out how to get through a red light faster. The UI is bare, but the algorithms are non-trivial.
• Yi is really good at debugging.

System Design

Behavioral