Daniel Zhuang
Software Engineer at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Greater Chicago Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDaniel Zhuang is a versatile software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience across backend microservices, event-driven systems, and robotics research, currently building scalable services at WEX. He combines industry internships at State Farm and MathWorks with research at NASA Langley and UIUC’s Reliable Autonomy Lab, where he helped develop verification tooling and neural radiance field simulations for avionics scenarios. A former youngest hire at State Farm who returned for multiple internships, he bridges production-grade engineering (CI/CD, AWS provisioning, performance front-end improvements) with academic rigor and teaching, having led course staff and built Gazebo-based integration tests for an autonomous vehicle. Known for systematically improving testing and deployment workflows, he enjoys solving hard distributed-systems problems while mentoring others to succeed with the right tools. A US citizen and UIUC master’s student, he brings a rare mix of product, research, and pedagogy to complex software systems.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
GPA 4.61/5.00(weighted) 4.0/4.0(unweighted), GPA 4.61/5.00(weighted) 4.0/4.0(unweighted) at Vernon Hills High SchoolMaster, Computer Science, Master, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
scenarios9
morse-code9
verification9
robotics8
agent-based-modeling8
simulation-modeling8
simulation8
modeling8
agent-based-simulation8
reinforcement-learning7
ai7
autonomy6
autonomous-vehicles4
autonomous-agents2
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
danielzhuang11/SpeechPathologyApp
Nov 2019 - Sep 2021
A set of games made to teach kids how to pronounce words
Contributions:52 commits, 6 PRs, 43 pushes in 1 year 10 months
gamegameskidsmorse-codewords
danielzhuang11/SafeRoads
May 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:6 PRs, 18 pushes, 2 branches in 9 months
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