Yixin Zhu

About Yixin Zhu

Yixin is someone who thrives on turning big ideas into reality, whether it’s building features from scratch or scaling them to serve growing teams and organizations. With over 12+ years of silicon valley experience building consumer products at scale, Yixin brings a wealth of experience across multiple industries. His approach is hands-on and results-driven, always with an eye on improvement—both for the systems and people around him. Yixin is deeply passionate about personal growth, investing in others, and creating an environment where people feel supported to achieve their goals. Yixin has a proven track record in building engineering orgs from the ground up, executing complex cross-functional programs with $100M+ business impact, and leading global, multi-disciplinary teams across mobile, web, platform, and AI/ML systems. Passionate about data-driven decision-making, operational excellence, and creating high-performance, inclusive cultures. Outside of work, he’s a seasoned runner and a proud dog owner, sharing his life with a playful black-tri Australian Shepherd.(Dog-friendly offices are always a win!) Feel free to reach out to connect!

Experience

1. VP of Engineering

   Flashfood

   Oct 2025 — Present

   Building teams and technology to fight food waste at scale. I lead engineering with a focus on scalable systems, data and AI-driven product development, and a mission that makes a real-world impact. We’re growing and I’ll be hiring across engineering, data, operations and more — reach out if you want to work on meaningful problems with cutting-edge tech.

Education

• UC San Diego

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

Skills

• Agile Methodologies
• Program Management
• Software Project Management
• Operating Systems
• Sql
• C++
• C
• Php
• Objective-C
• Opengl
• Android
• Java
• Algorithms
• Openscenegraph
• Software Development
• Python