Baotang Zu
Founding Engineer at Petra Labs
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBaotang Zu is a founding engineer and former AWS software engineer based in New York, blending hands-on backend and AI work with early-stage product building. In just over a year of professional experience he helped build agentic AI for developer experience at AWS and now shapes core product and technical direction at Petra Labs. His internship at Amazon showcased strong systems-thinking—consolidating Spark jobs, slashing codebase size by 75%, and cutting onboarding time from 20+ days to under three. Academic research at UCSB and Michigan spans practical ML and computer vision: from a task-oriented chatbot with 96% extraction accuracy to a C++/OpenCV web tool that sped neural tissue analysis by 80%. Comfortable across Scala, Spark, Python, C++, Node.js and tooling like Airflow and EMR, he brings a rare mix of research rigor and production impact for a startup-stage engineer.
2 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Mechatronics, Master's degree Mechatronics at University of MichiganHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Tower Hill SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Physics & Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Physics & Computer Engineering at UC Santa Barbara
Github Skills (8)
lambda10
serverless10
aws10
vscode-extension10
vscode10
amazon10
azure-devops6
language-server5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
tomcat323/aws-toolkit-vscode
Sep 2024 - Jun 2025
Amazon Q, CodeCatalyst, Local Lambda debug, SAM/CFN syntax, ECS Terminal, AWS resources
Contributions:219 pushes, 40 branches, 14 comments in 9 months
tomcat323/NEP-POC
Mar 2025 - Mar 2025
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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