Brian is finding more elegant solutions to {education + technology = ?}
He is a Front-End Engineer at Zumper.
Before that, he was a Software Engineer at Social Growth Technologies.
Before that, he was a Hardware Engineer at Techno-Sciences.
He graduated with a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Maryland, College Park and specialized in Autonomous Control and Signal Processing. He has been building autonomous robots since he was 14 and writing software since he was 11.
Frontend Engineer @ Find apartments for rent in real-time, https://www.zumper.com/.
• Building responsive web components for more than 1 million monthly users
• Creating an automated test and deploy system for AngularJS codebase using Grunt, Karma and Protractor From August 2014 to Present (1 year 5 months) San Francisco Bay AreaCo-founder, Game Designer, Game Developer, Artist @ Zac Connelly and I worked on behavior games to subconsciously teach players strategies to real-life problems.
We participated in 48 hour game jams and posted the results here: http://jazzberrygames.com/ From September 2011 to September 2014 (3 years 1 month) Software Engineer @ SGT.io: Deals and Products API
• Building a RESTful API to provide deals and price-compared products to help digital content generators monetize traffic
White Rabbit: Shopping Recommendation and Price Matching
• Developed a web app for price compare using retailer web APIs such as the Amazon Product Advertising API and the eBay Shopping API
• Designed UI/UX
HoneyTree: Search for Coupons and Deals
• Developed a search front-end for deals and coupons using Elasticsearch
• Mapped Elasticsearch fields to MySQL fields to improve search speed and accuracy From February 2013 to July 2014 (1 year 6 months) Hardware Engineer @ Hardware and Systems Engineer focusing on signal processing and PCB design.
• Implemented CDMA modulation in SARSAT signals
• Redesigned and constructing TSi Reference Beacon
• Designed next generation handheld SARSAT beacons
• Wrote research proposals for government SBIR/STTR topics From January 2012 to January 2013 (1 year 1 month) Intern @ • Developed autonomous GPS navigation and collision avoidance capabilities for a military-grade land rover and a scaled radio-controlled motor boat.
• Created a graphical user interface to plot GPS coordinates recorded using NMEA protocol onto a map image. From June 2009 to December 2011 (2 years 7 months)
BS, Electrical Engineering, 3.75 @ University of Maryland College Park From 2007 to 2011 Chinese, Electrical Engineering @ Nanjing University (Study Abroad) From 2009 to 2010 Brian Zhang is skilled in: JavaScript, AngularJS, ElasticSearch, Node.js, Python, Lean Startup, Django, Signal Processing, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Matlab, Robotics, C++, C, Linux