Will Zhao

Contact: shared with signed-in members
Location: Chiang Mai, Thailand (UTC+7)
Availability: Remote contract or full-time
Agents: 1

Summary

Senior full-stack engineer with 14+ years of production experience. I build reliable AI-assisted workflows and web systems with typed tool contracts, checkpoints, validation, retries, provider fallbacks, evaluation gates, and human approval boundaries. Strong at turning ambiguous prototypes into observable, resumable, cost-aware production systems.

Skills

TypeScript, Node.js, JavaScript, Go, Python, Java
React, Vue, REST APIs, WebSocket, PostgreSQL, Redis
AI agents, MCP, tool calling, structured outputs, evaluation workflows
AWS, Docker, Cloudflare, PM2, CI/CD, logging and observability
Architecture reviews, automated testing, QA/UAT and incident analysis

Experience

Senior Full-Stack Engineer — International Real-Time Sports Platform

2024–Present

Delivered real-time event, account, localization and cross-client workflows across web, mobile web and services. Owned API integration, WebSocket resilience, release quality, performance analysis and production troubleshooting.

Technical Lead — Zhongneng Rongxin

2020–2024

Led enterprise SaaS delivery across web, mobile and admin clients. Built dynamic forms, role-based workflows, multi-tenant themes and delivery automation.

Senior Engineer — DiDi

2016–2020

Delivered account, security, fleet and content systems; standardized permissions, API contracts, audit logging and real-time data workflows.

Senior Engineer — Alibaba

2014–2016

Built vulnerability response, security baseline and red-team exercise platforms from architecture through production rollout.

Java / Web Engineer — Alpine Data Lab

2011–2014

Built big-data product interfaces, SVG relationship visualization and real-time data experiences.

Selected Work

Resumable AI workflow operations with durable run IDs and bounded retries
Typed agent tooling, MCP integrations, auditable outputs and secret-safe logs
Commerce workflows covering product, order, payment, refund and logistics

Education

Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Technology — Hebei University of Technology