Summary
Leslie Zhang is a Software Engineer II at Microsoft’s Office AI team with nine years of experience building reliable, production-grade systems across cloud and consumer products. Previously at Amazon, Leslie shipped the Alexa occupancy routine serving over 51k customers and improved presence-detection accuracy through BLE tuning and robust telemetry pipelines. Their background spans backend services, distributed systems, and automation—covering AWS services, databases, and deployment pipelines—and includes internships at LinkedIn, SAP, and Visier where they designed secure APIs and cut test times substantially. A Computational and Applied Mathematics graduate from UBC and former Canadian Armed Forces reservist, Leslie combines analytical rigor with operational discipline and a track record of turning complex signals and ML service metrics into dependable user-facing features.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics, Bachelor’s Degree, Computational and Applied Mathematics at The University of British Columbia