Yi Zeng

Engineering Lead with 15+ Years of Experience

Building tech across US, New Zealand and Germany

About Me

An Engineering Lead with over 15+ years of experience building tech across US, New Zealand and Germany.

I spent the first 7 years of my career mastering enterprise SaaS systems at US and Oceania giants like Verizon Connect, Harcourts Real Estate, and WooHoo NZ Tax Refunds. (#dot-net, #rails, #react)

Then for the last decade, I've been in the Berlin startup trenches as a Lead Engineer (#rails, #golang) and Engineering Lead for companies like Amorelie.de, Passbase, Get2Germany, and topi.eu, helping teams ship great code and scale through high-growth phases — supporting these companies to raise over €100M in total funding.

Outside the Office Mode

Founded strafo.app, a Strava analytics tool used by 20,000+ athletes. Done multiple marathons and mountain races across the globe. I'm also a dedicated parkrunner and ticked off 14 countries with over 80 unique parkrun venues.

My Blog

I used to irregularly write few things about I learnt in development. Not so much active now, but the blog itself still attracts thousands of visitors per month.

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Contact

Feel free to contact me anytime for anything.