Summary
Aaron Zhang is a hands-on principal software engineer and co-owner with 12 years of experience building large-scale ML infrastructure, serverless platforms, and backend systems across AWS, Kubernetes, and Ray. He has led orchestration and typing systems that manage millions of training jobs and driven auth, serialization, and framework integrations at autonomous-vehicle and cloud teams. An AWS-certified developer and architect fluent in Python, Go, Java, and modern web stacks, he pairs deep systems design with pragmatic delivery—shipping tools used org-wide at AWS and Cruise. He also brings an entrepreneurial streak, co-founding fitness ventures while continuing to lead ML infra at Motional. Notably, he blends production engineering with research-grade data processing experience from academic work that processed 20k+ datasets in under a minute. Based in California, he specializes in making complex ML workflows reliable, auditable, and operational at scale.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
The University of Arizona
Master’s Degree, Master’s Degree at Lehigh University
English, Chinese