James Zhang
Software Engineer at TikTok
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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Top SchoolJames Zhang is a Sydney-based software engineer with eight years of experience delivering scalable web and backend systems. He is currently applying his craft at TikTok as a Software Engineer, a role he has held since September 2023. Previously, at Luxury Escapes (2021–2023), he led full-stack development on the CRO team, building React/TypeScript frontends and Node.js microservices. Earlier at Amadeus (2018–2021), he contributed Python and C++ work for Optimised Passenger Recovery and Re-accommodation within the Altéa Inventory R&D group. His early career includes an SRE internship at Nutanix (2017–2018), focusing on serviceability, testing, and tooling to scale field deployments. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from UNSW and embraces a curious, learn-on-the-job mindset—always hydrating and coding on the side.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Epping Boys High SchoolUNSW Sydney
Github Skills (29)
spec10
release-management10
changelog10
publish10
release-automation10
dedicated-server10
dotnet9
golang9
expressjs7
opengl7
windows7
linux7
rust6
macos6
vte6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
J-Leg/tracula
Apr 2020 - Dec 2020
Game population data
Contributions:7 releases, 2 reviews, 30 PRs in 8 months
population-data
jamszh/blog
Sep 2022 - Aug 2024
My personal site
Contributions:1 review, 83 PRs, 162 pushes in 1 year 10 months
reactnextjs
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