Resume

## Fred Y. Zhao

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Summary

Experienced "one to a thousand" engineering leader and tryhard dogfooder
Expertise in server-side abstractions, competence in fullstack development
Passionate about improving existing systems, cross-team collaboration, and building knowledge repositories

Proudest accomplishments highlighted with ✨ below

Engineering Manager | Jun 2022 - Present

General
- ✨ Built / evolved internal tools using Airtable itself: Linear/Jira replacement, go/links, eng onboarding scheduler
- Internal expert & dogfooder of every part of the product
- 2 years fullstack development, 3 years engineering management
Large Deployments & Data Governance (Sep 2023 - Present):
- Led team of 7-12 engineers to close product and system gaps for administering users at 10x scale (10k → 100k)
- ✨ Enabled multimillion-dollar ARR enterprise customers to adopt wall-to-wall deployments
- Joined customer calls to incorporate feedback and inform project prioritization
- Significantly reduced engineering support time while maintaining quality
- Facilitated eng/product/design discussions to empower engineers and manage teamwide decision fatigue
Attachments (Jan - Nov 2023):
- ✨ Achieved high internal survey results for manager dimensions in career growth
- Led 5-engineer team replacing external vendor with in-house services
- Unlocked EKM compatibility for enterprise customers

Software Engineer | Sep 2020 - Dec 2022

Developer Platform & Ecosystems:
- Contributed to launching several API improvements for authentication, access, and documentation

Productivity Tools (Aug 2017 - Jul 2019):
- ✨ Built "Inbox Zero" features and notification management system that reduced company-wide notification noise
- Developed project management features for internal task management tool, "Tasks"
Photos/Sharing Infrastructure (Jul 2012 - Jul 2017):
- ✨ Led Post Data Model Refactor that unified sitewide user content models and reduced complexity of new feature development
- Coordinated efforts across engineering teams in multiple organizations
- The Ads org still liked working with me in spite of my causing a SEV1 in revenue
- Enabled full attachment editing across all platforms and simplified development of new content features
- Built Albums and Shared Albums features across web (directly) and native (server support)

B.S. in Computer Science | Caltech | Pasadena, CA