Summary
Charlize Z is a senior vendor manager and technologist with 11 years of cross-functional experience bridging business strategy, engineering and product at Fortune 200 companies. Currently at Amazon, she manages content acquisition and P&L while also contributing as a full-stack engineer to Radish, an open-source Redis toolkit built with React, Node.js and AWS that showcases her hands-on cloud and DevOps chops. Her background spans corporate strategy and supply chain optimization at Western Digital, product launches at Microsoft, and early app development at Lenovo, giving her rare fluency across analytics, go-to-market and technical implementation. With an MS in Business Analytics and MBA, she combines data-driven decision making with practical engineering, and she’s comfortable shipping AI-enabled features using AWS Bedrock and modern web stacks. An interesting detail: she pairs vendor negotiations and strategic planning by day with open-source cloud development by night, making her equally adept at boardroom influence and code-level delivery.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
CS 71 Build Applications Without Programming: The No-Code Revolution, CS 71 Build Applications Without Programming: The No-Code Revolution at Stanford Continuing Studies
Bachelor's degree Logistics, Bachelor's degree Logistics at Shanghai Maritime University
Master of Science Business Analytics, Master of Science Business Analytics at W. P. Carey School of Business – Arizona State University
English, Chinese, Shanghainese