Jian Zhang
Senior Software Engineer at Waymo
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJian Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer in Palo Alto with 11 years of experience building perception and autonomy systems, currently contributing to Waymo’s autonomous vehicle stack. He bridges deep learning, computer vision and backend engineering—having led perception/CV teams at Magna and developed algorithms at Lyft Level 5—delivering production-ready models and infrastructure for real-world driving. Jian combines a strong academic foundation (MS degrees and PhD coursework) with hands-on system design, tuning perception pipelines for safety-critical applications. Colleagues rely on him to translate research into deployable software, and his cross-domain fluency means he often surfaces practical trade-offs between model accuracy and system engineering constraints.
10 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Bachelor of Science (BS) at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) at Penn State UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Master of Science (MS) at Miami University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
spring-web9
passkey8
java7
spring7
spring-boot7
spring-security5
amazon-dynamodb3
dynamodb3
aws-dynamodb2
aws2
data-access2
amazon2
spring-data2
data-access-layer1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
vkea95/TrainingStudio
May 2017 - Jul 2020
Contributions:51 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
BitTigerInst/KLV_Crawler
Jul 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:36 commits, 38 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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