Chi Zhang

Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Member since December 3, 2014

Chi Zhang is a Hong Kong-based web developer who has been working both in back-end and front-end web development for over four years. He has an additional five years' worth of mobile and desktop software development experience.

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Portfolio

Douban Inc.
Python, Quixote, Django, Flask, Git, MySQL
Tieto
Symbian C++, Symbian
Tsinghua Tongfang
C++, COM, Windows

Experience

JavaScript, 5 years
HTML, 5 years
CSS, 5 years
Python, 5 years
Chrome Extensions, 4 years
Django, 3 years
AngularJS, 2 years

Availability

Part-time

Preferred Environment

Mac OS X, Emacs, Git

The most amazing...

...thing I've made is a web browser extension intended for personal use, but which has expanded organically to thousands of users around the world every day.

Employment

Product Engineer
Douban Inc.
2011 - PRESENT
- Developed and maintained Douban FM.
- Responsible for the improvement and maintenance of the Douban FM music library.
- Developed and maintained Douban music product.
- Created a Git source control platform for company use.
- Built an artist royalty system.
- Collaborated closely with designers to create the Douban music programs home page and to propose and implement a card-flipping animation effect, which got high praise from the users after its release.
Technologies: Python, Quixote, Django, Flask, Git, MySQL
Senior Software Engineer
Tieto
2009 - 2011
- Developed software for Symbian mobile devices.
- Developed and maintained Chinese input methods on the Symbian platform.
- Maintained Korean input methods on the Symbian platform.
- Designed and developed mobile apps on Symbian mobile devices.
- Worked on the Symbian software project for Nokia devices.
Technologies: Symbian C++, Symbian
Senior Software Engineer
Tsinghua Tongfang
2006 - 2009
- Designed and developed software for a medical platform using C++ on Windows.
- Led a 15-person team to produce software as team lead.
- Supervised developer work.
- Designed medical software infrastructure.
- Solved problems and provided solutions for customers.
Technologies: C++, COM, Windows

Experience

Douban Music Programs Home Page (Development)
http://music.douban.com/programmes/
For playlists created by normal people to be found more easily by the users, we dig out the playlists in the back-end and render them in an elegant way. Minimalist design leads to top performance.
Golden Fleece Program (Development)
http://music.douban.com/artists/royalty/
The Golden Fleece program plans to accept ads and share future revenue with musicians based on the number of plays. I built the back-end of the system which focuses on robustness, efficiency, and extendability.
Pinboard Plus (Chrome Extension for Pinboard.in Bookmark Service) (Development)
https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/pinboard-plus/mphdppdgoagghpmmhodmfajjlloijnbd
My personal utility at first, then used by few friends and recommended to the world, now it has more than five thousands users around the world.

Skills

Languages
Python, HTML, CSS, SQL, JavaScript, Java, Objective-C
Misc
Chrome Extensions
Frameworks
Flask, Django, AngularJS
Tools
Emacs, Git, Terminal, Jenkins, GitHub, Slack, Shell, Makefile(s)
Libraries/APIs
React.js, jQuery, Flask-RESTful
Platforms
iOS, Android
Storage
MySQL, JSON, MongoDB, Redis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information and Computing Sciences
Beijing University of Technology - Beijing
2002 - 2006

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