Jake Zhong
Software Engineer II at Microsoft
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJake Zhong is a software engineer with a decade of experience building large-scale, low-latency systems and consumer-facing products across cloud and mobile platforms. He has driven core infrastructure and feature work at Amazon and Prime Video—authoring high-availability runtime frameworks, playback and Alexa integrations, and onboarding services adopted by 100+ teams—while optimizing CI/CD and test pipelines to cut runtimes and deployment risk. Comfortable across the full stack, Jake blends strong system design and distributed-systems expertise with hands-on work in Java, Python, TypeScript, React/React Native, Kubernetes, Kafka, and AWS. He’s also shipped product-focused startups and university partnerships through a multimedia social platform, showing a knack for translating UX and ML integrations into measurable adoption. Based in San Jose, Jake pairs rigorous architecture thinking with pragmatic delivery, and he brings uncommon breadth from mobile-native ML prototyping to large retail-scale frameworks.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Multimedia and Network Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Multimedia and Network Technology at South China Normal UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of San FranciscoMaster of Science - MS Digital Media with a focus in Interactive Design, Master of Science - MS Digital Media with a focus in Interactive Design at Northeastern University
English, ChineseProgramming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jakezhong/paralmaxjs
Sep 2017 - Jul 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 36 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
jakezhong/jk-js-handbook
Feb 2018 - Jan 2019
Contributions:90 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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