Alan Zheng
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Zheng is a software engineer at AWS with eight years of experience building production services and a strong foundation from UVA (BS, 3.98) and ongoing graduate work in computer science. He combines hands-on backend engineering—Java, Ruby, Bash, DynamoDB and AWS tooling—with research and teaching experience, having TA'd a cryptocurrency course and contributed NLP and data-science projects earlier in his career. At Amazon he has shipped operational features for Identity and Access Management, including automated bootstrap rate limiting and host health checks that reduced manual operational work. His interests center on algorithms, AI and machine learning, and he has applied those skills in both research labs and industry internships. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he brings a blend of production-first engineering and academic rigor, and is comfortable translating research ideas into documented, deployable systems. An unusual detail: he started impactful ML/NLP work as a high-school graduate from TJHSST and continued it through industry roles, showing long-standing depth in the field.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at University of WashingtonHigh School Diploma, 4.5, High School Diploma, 4.5 at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and TechnologyBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.982/4.0 GPA, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.982/4.0 GPA at University of Virginia
Latin, Chinese, English
Github Skills (20)
adversarial-attacks10
adversarial-machine-learning10
data-augmentation10
security9
natural-language-processing9
nlp9
data-representation8
machine-learning8
python7
extjs4
data-science4
azerothcore3
swarm3
rewrite3
semantics2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
arxk9/random-tiny-projects
Aug 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
arxk9/multiagent_tetris
Dec 2022 - Apr 2025
Contributions:4 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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