Dioni Zhong
Storyteller trapped in a programmer's body.
Worked on movies and video games in my past lives. Yes, you know the movies. Maybe not the games.
Two degrees — Software Engineering and English Literature + Creative Writing.
One funded my entire life. One did not. Guess which is which.
Lived in 7 different countries, 9 cities. Perpetual chronic identity crisis is part of the identity.
Stumbled upon a home in a small city in the southwest corner of China in 2023.
[2026.03.12] I "retired" from coding for the past few years. Recently checking what's this whole AI thing about, only to realise that coding is a bit like riding a bike. The body remembers. And boy has it become a lot more fun since I left! Feel like a superhero who discovered a whole new superpower when coming out of her retirement. Like Rambo. Or Wonder Woman. Like running up the mountain with a pair of Chinese robot legs.
Find me on
- Substack: the Noodle Jar for my writing
- Instagram for occasional pics
- LinkedIn for my resume
- GitHub for my code
Fun fact: meexia (short for meecharixia) is a name of a character I created when I was 20yo. My drawing of her gave me a scholarship to do a game dev program in Canada, and paved the way for the rest of my career in games and VFX for movies.