Liang Zhao

Liang Zhao is a Java Software Engineer at NIWA since December 2018, specializing in creating Rest and SOAP APIs with features such as pagination, graphs, and CRUD operations. Prior experience includes a role as Software Engineer at PascheTV LP, where development focused on the backend of a video streaming application using Scala Akka and UI front design with Scala-JS. Liang also served as an Associate Data Scientist at The University of Auckland, performing NLP sentiment analysis and collaborating on data collection, cleaning, and model building. An earlier role as a Data Mining Engineer Intern involved benchmarking text analysis tools and effectively organizing customer comments. Liang's career began at BASE CO., LTD., working on system development for Tokyo Stock and complex workflow modules. Liang holds a Master's degree in Information Technology with a focus on Data Analysis and Data Mining from The University of Auckland and a Bachelor's degree in Computer Science and Technology from Shanghai University.