Hanzhong Zhang - SDE at Amazon

Hanzhong Zhang

SDE at Amazon

Bellevue, Washington, United States

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Hanzhong Zhang is an experienced software development engineer with 11+ years building and operating cloud-native services for Microsoft and Amazon, now focused on denied party screening at Amazon in Bellevue. He has led teams and end-to-end delivery of mission-critical systems—from datacenter security and capacity planning automation to high-scale Azure reference implementations and real-time simulator integrations for aboutGOLF. His strengths span architecture, backend development, SQL Server data interaction, performance optimization, and operational support, with hands-on contributions to an open-source performance optimization repo. Hanzhong pairs deep engineering rigor (PhD-level analytical training) with practical product delivery, having filed multiple patents earlier in his career. Colleagues rely on him for solving complex distributed systems and reducing cross-service chatty IO and database bottlenecks.

11 years of coding experience

21 years of employment as a software developer

Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering, Ph.D., Mechanical Engineering at University of Rhode Island

BS, Solid Mechanics, BS, Solid Mechanics at Huazhong University of Science and Technology

MS, Aerodynamics, MS, Aerodynamics at Beihang University (Beijing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Github Skills (10)

csharp10

performance-optimization10

sql10

api-design9

restful-api9

rest-api9

api-rest9

netframework8

microsoft-azure7

azure7

Programming languages (2)

C#JavaScript

Github contributions (5)

mspnp/performance-optimization

Feb 2015 - Apr 2015

Guidance on how to observe, measure, and correct common issues in a cloud-based system.

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:30 commits in 1 month

Contributions summary:Hanzhong primarily contributed to the back-end development of a cloud-based system focused on performance optimization. The commits involve adding and modifying controllers, and models, including adding new methods, changing SQL operations, and adding logging functionalities. The contributions also show the user's work on database interaction, specifically with SQL Server, which involves updating and inserting data.

correctperformance-optimizationcloud-applicationscaleanti-patterns

microsoftarchive/data-pipeline-storm

Jan 2015 - Mar 2016

Contributions:69 commits, 2 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months

tridentevent-hubapacheblobsstorm

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