Li Zhou
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolLi Zhou is a backend-focused Software Development Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of engineering experience and four years at Amazon building distributed, cloud-native services across AWS. He architected a Gen AI–powered email relay that processes over 10k emails daily and led infrastructure automation efforts that saved roughly $3M annually. At AWS he improved release and test workflows—boosting release efficiency 30%, increasing test coverage 20%, halving false positives, and cutting canary costs by 60%—demonstrating a pragmatic blend of automation and reliability engineering. Trained in automation engineering, Li combines systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation to turn complex distributed problems into scalable, cost-efficient production services.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Automation Engineering at Nanjing Agricultural UniversityAutomation Engineering, Automation Engineering at Nanjing University of Science and Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (9)
decoder6
encoder5
encoder-decoder5
natural-language-generation3
question-answering3
seq2seq2
tensorflow2
machine-translation2
imitation-learning1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
amazon-science/sc2qa-dril
Mar 2022 - Mar 2022
Code for Generating Self-Contained and Summary-Centric Question Answer Pairs via Differentiable Reward Imitation Learning, EMNLP 2021
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
answer-generationimitation-learningnatural-language-generationquestion-answer-generationquestion-answering
alexa/dstqa
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:4 commits in 1 day
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