Summary
Haiyu Zhen is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience designing and shipping large-scale, resilient systems across cloud, distributed systems, and big data domains. Currently at AWS KMS, she focuses on building high-throughput, low-latency infrastructure that supports millions of transactions per second with five-nines availability. Her background spans backend and full-stack roles at DoorDash and Google, where she contributed to serverless event routing and performance-critical tooling for graphics and cloud platforms. Proficient in Java, Kotlin, C++, Python, Go, and JavaScript, she blends systems-level thinking with pragmatic engineering to drive product and operational impact. Trained at University of Waterloo and Huazhong University of Science and Technology, she pairs academic rigor with hands-on experience in cloud architecture and large-scale data processing. A pragmatic innovator, she often surfaces engineering improvements that reduce operational surface area while enabling business growth.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering at Huazhong University of Science and Technology
Master of Mathematics, Computer Science, Master of Mathematics, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese