Edwin Zhang

Background

About Edwin Zhang

I am a seasoned leader in both user experience and engineering, with a track record of driving successful initiatives across web and mobile development (both iOS and Android), user experience (both enterprise and consumer), cloud infrastructure, API and developer tools, and DevOps. Notable achievements include: • Co-Founder of Cisco DevNet: Founding member of Cisco DevNet - Cisco's developer program, played a crucial role in building and growing the program into a thriving community of over developers. As UX and platform owner, led a global team in designing, building, and operating the cloud platform that supported developers. • Award winning UX leader: Led UX research and design teams that received multiple design awards, including the Red Dot Design Award, DevPortal Award, and Slash Data Award. • Software and cloud platform leader: Transformed platform and delivered microservice-based systems that expanded to both public cloud and data centers, leveraging technologies including AWS, Terraform, K8s, kafka, OAuth. • Mobile excellence: Delivered best-in-class mobile experience for Google apps on iOS and Android including new features for a seamless cross-product experience, software libraries in Swift and Kotlin, and release platform specifically for Google iOS apps. • Innovator and Patent Inventor: Over 20 granted and pending patents in areas such as video collaboration systems, developer tools, and 3D user interfaces. Contributed to two books on design thinking and industrial design.