Brian Z
SDE at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBrian Z is an SDE at Amazon and a third-year Computer Science student at the University of Washington with a decade-plus of hands-on experience across industry and research. He has moved between production engineering at Amazon and applied research, from improving subway accessibility through data scraping to refining NLP-driven pronunciation models for a top-ranked ESL app. His background spans full-stack work in TypeScript/React-Native, Python data tooling, and collaboration with deep learning teams, showing comfort shipping both frontend features and backend services. As a former TA for Data Programming, he blends teaching and engineering, translating complex concepts into practical coursework and tools. Notably, his early bioengineering research reflects an unusual cross-disciplinary curiosity that informs his data-driven approach to software problems. Based in Seattle, he focuses on building accessible, user-centered systems that bridge research insights and production-grade code.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of WashingtonInterlake high school
Chinese
Github Skills (21)
env9
risk-assessment9
quantitative9
r-package7
redcap7
computer-science6
differential-expression3
finder2
seq2
testing2
der2
bioinformatics2
rna-seq2
python1
data-management1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
brianhigh/visual-tracerouter
Dec 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:120 commits, 113 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
brianhigh/OpsReportCardBook
Dec 2017 - Oct 2023
Contributions:77 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 10 months
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