Chris Zhao

Experience Level

Expert
Expert

Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Advisor / Consultant at Ovanti (BNPL product, US)
October 1, 2025 - February 1, 2026
Provided technical guidance on backend architecture and system design for the BNPL product, including merchant settlement and dispute flows. Contributed to critical features and led AI-enabled workflow improvements to accelerate delivery and reliability.
Senior Engineer / Acting Tech Lead at Block / Afterpay
February 1, 2023 - May 1, 2025
Led end-to-end evolution of Afterpay's global notification platform into a centralized event-driven service; redesigned architecture to handle burst traffic, improve resilience, and support multi‑region/multi‑language delivery; directed cross‑functional teams to deliver value.
Senior Engineer / Contract at Atlassian
January 1, 2021 - November 1, 2021
Translated complex business requirements for initiatives into scalable technical solutions balancing speed and long-term maintainability; bridged product and engineering teams to drive delivery.
Senior Developer at PCCW Global
January 1, 2018 - January 1, 2020
Lead developer; evaluated and adopted event-driven architecture; designed workflows using Camunda BPM to manage microservice states and business rules; built and led a high-performing engineering team.
Senior Developer at Console Group
January 1, 2016 - January 1, 2018
Built a documentation/report generation framework using Spring Boot, Spring Batch and AWS to handle burst traffic and generate large volumes of month-end and year-end reports.

Education

Master of Information Technology at University of Adelaide
January 11, 2030 - March 31, 2026

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Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Financial Services, Professional Services