Jackson Zheng is a software engineer with eight years of experience building AI-driven backend, full-stack, and infrastructure systems, currently contributing to Databricks in the San Francisco Bay Area. His background spans ML infrastructure at Tesla Autopilot, visual perception and MapNet development at NVIDIA, and research contributions to COVID‑NET, reflecting a blend of production-grade engineering and academic research. Trained in Systems Design Engineering with an AI option from the University of Waterloo, he repeatedly moves models from prototype to scalable platforms for autonomy and healthcare applications. Notably comfortable at the intersection of ML infra and systems design, he brings practical experience automating complex pipelines and deploying perception models in safety-critical contexts.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Systems Design Engineering, Option in Artificial Intelligence, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc, Systems Design Engineering, Option in Artificial Intelligence at University of Waterloo
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