Donovan Zhong
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Walnut Creek, California, United States
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Top SchoolDonovan Zhong is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and automation, currently contributing to AWS’s business intelligence and billing platform. He combines a tinkerer’s curiosity with disciplined engineering—having designed ORM/DAO abstractions during an AWS internship and earned a Think Big Award for an intern project. His background spans quantitative trading systems, live deployment on AWS EC2, and data pipelines with Airflow and Pandas, showing strength in turning raw data into operational insights. Early work in robotics and vision (FIRST robotics lead, CES demo ML on Raspberry Pi) reflects strong applied machine learning and embedded systems instincts. Comfortable across Java, Python, Spring, MongoDB and cloud infrastructure, he bridges research-style experimentation and production-grade delivery. Based in Walnut Creek, CA, Donovan consistently learns on the job and favors pragmatic solutions that scale.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES, High School Diploma, HIGH SCHOOL/SECONDARY DIPLOMAS AND CERTIFICATES at The Athenian SchoolExtracurricular Courses & Activities, Extracurricular Courses & Activities at Eastman School of MusicB.S Computer Science, B.S Computer Science at University of Rochester
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (8)
testing6
robot5
robotics4
ros4
lists3
protobuf1
grpc1
kotlin1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
athenian-robotics/Skeleton
Oct 2018 - Jan 2019
Testing repo for the 2019 season
Contributions:58 commits, 1 PR, 30 pushes in 2 months
testing-repotestingseason
20dzhong/20dzhong-mkdocs
Oct 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 7 months
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