Danny Zhang

Danny Zhang is a co-founder and former Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Wish, an American e-commerce platform.4 He has been revolutionizing mobile commerce at Wish since 2011, when he joined his college friend Piotr Szulczewski to relaunch the company.14

Zhang's background includes:

1. Education: He graduated from the University of Waterloo with a B. Math in computer science, combinatorics & optimization, and an M. Math in distributed crypto schemes.5

2. Work experience: Before Wish, Zhang worked at AT&T Interactive as Director of Engineering, Lime Wire as an Architect, and Yahoo! as a Tech Lead in Search & Advertising Science.5

At Wish, Zhang has been instrumental in developing the platform's innovative features:

• Personalizing the shopping experience visually for each customer4
• Implementing a system that learns consumers' interests and sends them direct, attainable products to their smartphones2
• Helping to build what they aimed to be "the largest shopping mall on Earth"3

Zhang, along with co-founder Szulczewski, has also given back to the University of Waterloo through scholarships and support for programming competitions.2

Under Zhang's technical leadership, Wish became one of the most downloaded e-commerce applications in the United States by 2017.4 The company's approach to mobile commerce has been compared to TaoBao, focusing on providing unbranded, affordable goods to an underserved global market.1