👨‍💻 Nick (Yiming) Zheng

Tech Leader · Full-Stack TypeScript Developer · DevOps / Platform Engineering

• 📧 Email: nickzhengyiming@gmail.com
• 📱 Phone: +86 189 189 60666

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🚀 Summary

• 12+ years of hands-on experience in Full-Stack JavaScript development and DevOps / Platform Engineering.
• Deep expertise in modern JS stack: React / Next.js / Node.js (NestJS), delivering Web Apps, WeChat Mini Programs, and production-grade services.
• Strong focus on reliability & delivery efficiency: CI/CD, Git workflow, Kubernetes orchestration, and automated quality gates.
• Solid testing practices across frontend & backend: unit / integration / e2e, ensuring high quality and stable releases.
• 6 years of people management experience (8–15 engineers): hiring, team structuring, task allocation, mentoring, and performance coaching.

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🎓 Education

• Master of Computing and IT, Northumbria University (UK) — 2012.01 – 2013.06
• Bachelor of Communication Engineering, Shanghai Dianji University (China) — 2007.09 – 2011.06

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🧰 Tech Stack

🖥️ Frontend (React Ecosystem)

• React (since 2015): createClass → ES6 Class Components / Pure Components → Functional Components / Hooks
• State management: Redux (Saga/Thunk) → Context + custom hooks → Redux Toolkit / DVA / Zustand / React Query / ahooks
• Framework: Next.js
• UI & Forms: Ant Design / Ant Design Pro / React Hook Form
• Legacy: Angular 1.x

⚙️ Backend (Node.js)

• Frameworks: Express → Koa → Ali Egg.js → NestJS (AOP & DI)
• API: RESTful, Swagger / OpenAPI
• ORM: TypeORM
• Storage: PostgreSQL / Redis

☁️ DevOps / Cloud / Platform

• Cloud: AWS / Alibaba Cloud / Azure
• CI/CD: GitHub Actions / GitLab Pipelines / Jenkins (pre-2018)
• Deployment
  • Frontend: S3 + CDN, Cloudflare Pages
  • Backend: Kubernetes (Helm) / ECS Fargate / Serverless (Lambda / Alibaba Cloud Function)
• Observability: Sentry (Errors / Tracing / APM / Logs / Metrics)
• RUM: Alibaba Cloud Real User Monitoring (Frontend)

🧪 Tooling & Testing

• Code quality: ESLint / Prettier → Biome
• Git hooks: Husky + lint-staged (pre-commit / pre-push)
• Frontend testing: React Testing Library / Jest / Cypress
• Backend testing: Supertest / @nestjs/testing
• Legacy (2013–2015): Jasmine / Karma / Protractor / Grunt / Gulp / RequireJS

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💼 Experience & Selected Projects

🎵 ACE Studio AI (ongoing)

• 🌐 Web: https://web-dev.acemusic.ai

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🎓 CampusGPT (since 2023)

• 🌐 Chatbox: https://chat.campus-gpt.com/

Tech Stack

• Frontend: React + Zustand + Tailwind + Ant Design
• Backend: NestJS + TypeORM
• Infrastructure: AWS → Alibaba Cloud, ECS (Fargate) → Alibaba Cloud Function (Serverless)
• Gateway: Cloudflare AI Gateway

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🧩 Yara

Tech & Highlights

• Built WeChat Mini Program using Taro (React) with standardized UI component patterns and delivery workflow
• Backend services built with NestJS TypeORM
• Established an OpenAPI-based client generation workflow to produce TypeScript Axios clients + typings
• Operated on Alibaba Cloud ACK (Kubernetes) and implemented Kubernetes-based deployment automation
• Enabled faster iteration with Review Apps (GitLab Review Apps) across environments

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🏢 EY (Ernst & Young)

React Hooks Enablement & Frontend Engineering Practices

• Drove team-wide React Hooks best practices: patterns, review checklist, and shared examples
• Extracted shared logic into reusable custom hooks to reduce duplication and improve readability
• EImproved data-flow clarity by reducing ad-hoc useEffect usage and enforcing predictable abstractions
• Reduced scattered useEffect usage with clearer abstractions and predictable data flow

EY Blockchain China Hosting & Compliance

• Azure (Azure CN) China hosting
• Introduced Helm to template and standardize deployments
• Moved region- and customer-specific differences into Helm values files
• Designed CI/CD workflows to meet China region constraints and compliance requirements

┌──────────────────────────┐
│   Environment US/China │  ← values-cn.yaml / values-us.yaml
└────────────▲─────────────┘
             │
┌────────────┴─────────────┐
│     Helm Values Layer    │  ← image, resources, ingress, replicas
└────────────▲─────────────┘
             │
┌────────────┴─────────────┐
│     Helm Templates       │  ← deployment / service / ingress
└────────────▲─────────────┘
             │
┌────────────┴─────────────┐
│       Kubernetes         │
└──────────────────────────┘

• Replaced Auth0 with Authing for authentication and user management
• Localization implemented via Git flow

Express → NestJS Migration

• Led services migration from pure Express to NestJS
• Standardized authentication, validation, logging, and error handling in NextJS
• Set up OpenAPI-driven TypeScript client generation to align FE/BE contracts

Blockchain On-chain Public Service

• Built a reusable on-chain public service layer to unify blockchain write/read operations
• Consolidated repeated ethers.js integration logic into a standardized shared micro-service

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🌱 Early Career

University (Self-taught)

• Ruby on Rails
• PHP (Yii Framework)

HSBC

• Adobe Flex / ActionScript → HTML5 / Angular 1.x
• RequireJS / Grunt / Karma / Jasmine
• TeamCity / Jira Agile

React & Tooling (2015)

• JSX, component model, Flux / Reflux
• Webpack, Babel

Node.js & Infra

• Express / Koa / Egg.js
• Docker / Kubernetes