Alan Z.
Alan Z.
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(2)
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Location
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Bio

https://alanzhou.tech

Portals
Categories
Cloud technologies Website development Software development Machine learning Databases

Skills

Application programming interface (api) 1 Data-driven decision making 1 Product quality (qa/qc) 1 Website architecture 1 Website builder 1 Website optimization 1

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Work experience

Open Source Developer
Mozilla Foundation
San Francisco, California, United States
January 2024 - Current

â—¦ Worked on Firefox browser toolkits in JavaScript and C++. Improved reader mode functionality by rolling out a custom themes menu and adding accessibility features, leveraging Mercurial for version control and Phabricator for collaboration.

â—¦ Developed custom unit and integration tests using Mocha to validate new features and code changes. Utilized in-house CI/CD tools to automate the testing process.

Software Engineer
Littledrop
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
May 2023 - January 2024

â—¦ Utilized Node.js and TypeScript to develop scalable backends for multiple web projects, leveraging JWT and OAuth2 for authentication and Redis for session management/caching

â—¦ Enhanced performance of the client management portal by reducing database query latencies by over 200% through indexing essential items in the existing PostgreSQL database.

Education

Bachelor, Computer Science and Physics
University of British Columbia
September 2023 - Current