William Zhu

Software Engineer II at Twitch

San Francisco, California, United States

About

Hi! My name is William. I am a software engineer currently working on the Payments team at Twitch. So far at my time at Twitch I have led and shipped several projects covering the full software development lifecycle. Some projects I have shipped are Turbo free trial subscriptions, community gifting subs bundle discounts on mobile, and establishing GDPR compliance for Twitch's payment systems. Previously I was working at TikTok as a backend software engineer and member of the TikTok Open Platform team. At TikTok I focused on building scalable high throughput distributed systems and working with third party partners integrating with TikTok. I am also a graduate of the University of Waterloo's computer science program. Feel free to message me if you would like to chat

Experience

  • Twitch (4 yrs 6 mos)
    • Software Engineer II
      2024 - Present · 2 yrs 6 mos

      I work on payments and don't watch streams at work

    • Software Engineer
      2022 - 2024 · 2 yrs

      I work on payments and watch streams at work

  • Software Engineer at Amazon
    2022 - Present · 4 yrs 6 mos

    Twitch is a subsidiary of Amazon. I'm officially an Amazon employee. This position simply clarifies that.

  • Backend Software Engineer at TikTok
    2021 - 2022 · 1 yr

    TikTok for Developers and TikTok Jump. I was also on TikTok everyday (for testing purposes)

  • Software Engineer Intern at Flexport
    2020 - 2020 · Less than a year

    Ocean and ships and trading lanes

  • Software Engineering Intern at Lifion by ADP
    2019 - 2019 · Less than a year

    All I remember was playing around with javascript and plumbing data