Don Zheng
Staff Software Engineer at Aurora
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDon Zheng is a Staff Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building safety-critical infrastructure for autonomous systems, currently leading agentic AI and AI agent tooling for autonomous trucking at Aurora. He has a strong robotics and cloud background from Carnegie Mellon, Microsoft, Amazon Robotics, Argo AI, and earlier Aurora roles, with hands-on experience spanning motion planning, offline map generation, anomaly detection, and cloud platform engineering. Don blends research-rooted technical depth with production-grade system design, routinely shipping components that sit in the critical path of autonomy stacks. Outside work he brings unconventional creativity to engineering—his background in musical theatre and robotics-fed robot acting informs human-centered design—and he’s an avid photographer and motorcyclist who favors practical, testable solutions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Electrical & Computer Engineering; Robotics, Bachelor of Science (BS), Master of Science (MS), Electrical & Computer Engineering; Robotics at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Concordia International School Shanghai
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (27)
dotnet10
sdk10
azure10
csharp10
azure-sdk9
microsoft9
azure-functions9
dotnet-core9
microsoft-azure6
iot-device6
azure-iot-edge5
simulator5
siemens4
iot3
azure-iot-central3
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
anshudwibhashi/15418-Cache-Simulator
May 2015 - May 2015
Repository for my 15-418 cache coherence protocol simulator
Contributions:25 commits in 8 days
simulatorcoherencecache
zhaodong2013062/zhaodong2013062.github.io
Aug 2016 - Aug 2019
Contributions:31 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years
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