Anna Zhang

Anna Zhang is the Operations Senior Advisor at VandyHacks. Anna previously worked as a Computer Science Teaching Assistant at Vanderbilt University School of Engineering and as a Program Manager at Microsoft.

Anna has a passion for helping others and improving the customer experience. As a Computer Science Teaching Assistant, they helped over 250 students enrolled in CS 1104: Programming and Problem Solving in Python. Anna communicated difficult technical concepts clearly and concisely to students who needed help.

As a Program Manager at Microsoft, Anna redesigned a picture crop feature used by 3.4 million users per month. Anna collaborated with a team of 4 engineers and 2 designers to ship the feature in Winter 2021. Additionally, they defined a new process for alerting users about the status of their media file uploads when coauthoring in Word. Anna created mock designs in Figma for a new feature that helps customers fix broken media files. Anna conducted live customer interviews, researched Microsoft’s competitive landscape, and used customer survey feedback and telemetry data to drive decisions.

Anna Zhang has a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Vanderbilt University and a High School Diploma from Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.

Their manager is Izzy Hood, Operations Director. Some of their coworkers include Katelyn Itano - Operations Member, Leo Yang - Operations Member, and Aviv Roskes - Operations Member.