Benjamin Zhang Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

- Managed a team of 4, including 2 new recruits for whom I served as hiring manager. Continued fostering a culture of sharing & learning. - Improved on-call situation by advocating security, code quality, and a balance between feature development and sustaining engineering. - Ideated and led the development of an internal workflow framework in collaboration with the operations team, automating complex fulfillment operations for large-scale customer orders under tight deadlines… Show more - Managed a team of 4, including 2 new recruits for whom I served as hiring manager. Continued fostering a culture of sharing & learning. - Improved on-call situation by advocating security, code quality, and a balance between feature development and sustaining engineering. - Ideated and led the development of an internal workflow framework in collaboration with the operations team, automating complex fulfillment operations for large-scale customer orders under tight deadlines, significantly enhancing operational efficiency. The framework also enabled much quicker development of additional large scale internal workflows.- Co-designed the architecture for integrating new recommendation engine, supporting real-time and bulk recommendation processes. This architecture facilitated further innovation by the data science team, ensuring loose coupling with core e-commerce systems for enhanced scalability. Show less

New York, United States

- Managed a dynamic team of 4 engineers, including 3 new recruits for whom I served as hiring manager, fostering a high-performance team culture focused on continuous learning and development.- Redesigned and led the implementation of key internal data models, markedly improving the digital customer experience by enabling more flexible customer customization options and addressing critical pain points.- Directed ongoing support and enhancements for internal tooling related to… Show more - Managed a dynamic team of 4 engineers, including 3 new recruits for whom I served as hiring manager, fostering a high-performance team culture focused on continuous learning and development.- Redesigned and led the implementation of key internal data models, markedly improving the digital customer experience by enabling more flexible customer customization options and addressing critical pain points.- Directed ongoing support and enhancements for internal tooling related to fulfillment, order management, and supply chain management, bolstering operational capabilities and system reliability.- Collaborated closely with the Frontend team to develop high-impact customer-facing features, leading my team in building robust API endpoints that supported significant improvements in user interface and experience. Show less

- Adapted the core recommendation engine to implement an automated product swapping feature, dramatically reducing a previously manual, labor-intensive process from 2-4 hours to under 30 minutes, which became a key highlight of my tenure.- Initiated and led the adoption of a formal code review process, significantly enhancing development practices and code quality as the 4th member of the development team.- Applied design patterns and OOP good practices to improve software reusability… Show more - Adapted the core recommendation engine to implement an automated product swapping feature, dramatically reducing a previously manual, labor-intensive process from 2-4 hours to under 30 minutes, which became a key highlight of my tenure.- Initiated and led the adoption of a formal code review process, significantly enhancing development practices and code quality as the 4th member of the development team.- Applied design patterns and OOP good practices to improve software reusability, facilitating safe and efficient incremental changes across projects.- Optimized application performance through advanced techniques in asynchronous processing, parallelization, and caching, substantially improving system response times and user experience.- Developed multiple internal web applications that enabled the operations team to autonomously trigger background processes with a 'dry run' feature to preview changes before application, significantly enhancing operational efficiency and reducing dependency on developers.- Engineered various dev tools to streamline onboarding and ease of increasing unit test coverage, enhancing development workflows and efficiency. Show less

New York, Ny, United States

Greater New York City Area

New York

- Developing Single Page Web Applications using TypeScript and popular frameworks/libraries such as Backbone JS, Require JS, Underscore/Lodash, jQuery- Writing Python server apps for REST API development and website content management using Flask/Django- Building web server applications and command line tools in C/C++ for easier integration with existing C++ applications- Creating SQL queries or custom ORM (Object Relational Mapping) for applications to easily interact with… Show more - Developing Single Page Web Applications using TypeScript and popular frameworks/libraries such as Backbone JS, Require JS, Underscore/Lodash, jQuery- Writing Python server apps for REST API development and website content management using Flask/Django- Building web server applications and command line tools in C/C++ for easier integration with existing C++ applications- Creating SQL queries or custom ORM (Object Relational Mapping) for applications to easily interact with databases Show less

Greater New York City Area

- Designed and developed single page web applications using Backbone.js, Highcharts, require.js- Developed web server applications using Python/Flask- Deployed server applications in Linux environment- Created design mock up to guide product discussion and development

New York

- Developed web application front end using CoffeeScript, jQuery, Stylus(CSS)- Developed web application back end using Django (Python)- Collaborated using Git, PivotalTracker

Master Of Science (M.S.), Information Systems (Courant And Stern)

A Master's Degree Combining Computer Science at Courant and Business at Stern. Course Highlights: - Fundamental Algorithms - Programming.

Master Of Arts (M.A.), Communication And Media Studies

Course Highlights: Statistical Analysis

Bachelor Of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Tourism Management

Course Highlights: - Visual Basic.net Programming, - Management Information System - Excel Modeling for Business - Web Design - Multimedia.