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Shuai Zhang

Software Engineer III · AI Monetization & Billing Platforms · Distributed Systems

Last updated: 2026-08-15

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Summary

Backend engineer specializing in enterprise monetization, subscription, and usage-based billing systems. Across seven years in software engineering and quality-focused roles, I have progressed from validation infrastructure and developer tooling to backend systems where technical correctness directly affects revenue. At Zuora, I build prepaid commitment and subscription orchestration systems supporting 100K+ subscriptions and more than 100B usage transactions annually.

Core skills

AI monetization

usage metering · pricing architecture · prepaid credits · commitment consumption · cost attribution · budget enforcement

Languages & backend

Java · Python · JavaScript/TypeScript · SQL · Spring Boot · microservices · REST APIs

Systems & data

Kafka · Flink · MySQL · Redis · Grafana · AWS · Docker

Professional experience

  1. Zuora, Inc.

    Software Engineer III

    Tech Lead – Prepaid Billing & Subscription Orchestration Platform (1-year core initiative)

    05/2022 – Present · Promoted in 2024

    • Designed and delivered a prepaid billing and subscription orchestration platform covering commitment, prepayment, invoicing, and drawdown workflows, supporting 100K+ subscriptions and 100B+ usage transactions annually.
    • Architected a state-driven billing orchestration system with idempotency and reconciliation; reworked migration and subscription state flows to reduce failures by 60% and improve processing performance by 75%.
    • Owned architecture and design reviews while coordinating delivery of billing modules and APIs across Backend, Product, Frontend, UX, and QA.

  2. ByteDance, Inc.

    Software Engineer in Test

    01/2021 – 04/2022

    • Built Python SDK validation infrastructure and CI/CD release gates for core APIs, surfacing critical defects before release.
    • Developed Android diagnostic and UI automation tooling that reduced recurring release-cycle investigation effort.

  3. Elink Elite LLC.

    Software Testing Engineer

    Forward-deployed customer-facing model

    09/2019 – 11/2020

    • Embedded with hardware validation and production teams to diagnose device failures and translate operational problems into Python/ADB automation and diagnostic tooling.
    • Parallelized aging tests and reduced recurring investigation effort through automation shared with production teams.

Selected independent work

AI Usage Infrastructure Exploration

Independent open-source exploration · 2026 – Present

Independent open-source work in a personal capacity. Views and work are my own and do not represent my employer.

  • Exploring token-native usage metering, cost attribution, and real-time consumption controls for AI products.
  • Focus areas include event-based metering, reserve-and-reconcile budget control, and clear non-goals as a non-employer project.

Education

  • M.S. in Computer Science, Southern Methodist University

    Dallas, Texas · 09/2017 – 05/2019

  • B.S. in Computer Science, Guilin University of Electronic Technology

    China · 09/2013 – 06/2017

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