Wei Zhang
Software Engineering Manager at Snap Inc.
- Role
- Software Engineering Manager at Snap Inc.
- Location
- Seattle, WA, US
- LinkedIn followers
- 500 followers
About Wei Zhang
I am a Software Engineering Manager with 15+ years of industrial experience. I am specialized in distributed systems, networking and messaging area. I also have extensive knowledge in e-commerce and payments areas.
Experience
Software Engineering Manager
Feb 2021 — Present · Seattle, WA, US
I am currently leading the Payments team here in Snapchat. My team builds the backend infrastructure supporting all financial activities between Snap and our customers globally. It has four pods focusing on the following areas.(1). Ads Payments pod focuses on serving our advertisers. We build services, pipelines, and ML models to understand payments activities and behaviors from advertisers and find out patterns and innovative ways to incentivize them to spend more on Ads on our platform. It owns the incentive platform, coupon service, and financial reporting service.(2). Commerce Checkout pod is responsible for the checkout flow on the backend side. The checkout platform includes checkout APIs, order management service, shipping service, commerce payments orchestrator, and a shopping platform integration layer.(3). Consumer & Creator Payments pod enables payments for consumers and creators. It owns the In-App purchase backend service as well as the web checkout service managing mobile and web payments from consumers (i.e, Snapchatters). It also owns the payout service for paying content creators and partners to help boost high quality content on Snapchat.(4). Core Payments pod is responsible for building scalable and reliable payments infrastructure, including payments API, payments gateway, billing and invoicing, account and credential management, fraud detection and mitigation, payments recon, payments methods, currencies and taxes.
Education
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
PhD, Computer Science
2007 — 2011
Tsinghua University
Master of Engineering, Computer Science
2001 — 2004
Zhongshan University
Bachelor of Science, Physics
1995 — 1999
Skills
- Linux
- Big Data
- Web Services
- Algorithms
- Java
- Perl
- Amazon Web Services (Aws)
- Distributed Systems
- Object Oriented Design
- Perl, Java, C and C++
- Computer Science
- Hadoop
- Scalability
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