Michael Zhang
Senior Software Development Engineer at Workday
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolMichael Zhang is a Senior Software Development Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient, high-throughput systems using AWS, TypeScript, and Java. He has a track record at Amazon of architecting production-critical services—leading an Alpha-to-Production launch for an allocation service handling billions annually, cutting API latency by 80%, and migrating CD pipelines to shrink deployment lead time from a week to a day. Michael excels at pragmatic reliability engineering: he built real-time detection and local replay tooling for debugging, engineered transaction-level fault isolation for reconciliation, and reduced data mismatches by 98%. A McMaster computer engineering co-op alumnus based in Hamilton, he pairs deep systems-level skills with stakeholder-driven product sensibility and a history of mentoring new engineers. Notably, he combines rigorous validation frameworks with serverless debugging portals to make complex data flows auditable and operable at scale.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering Co-op, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering Co-op at McMaster UniversityHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Milliken Mills High School
English
Github Skills (17)
application-server9
java9
server9
runtime-environment9
composable7
microservices7
installer5
eclipse3
gradle-plugin3
patch3
upstream3
binaries2
linux2
groovy2
gradle2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
zhangm13/open-liberty
Mar 2019 - Aug 2019
Open Liberty is a highly composable, fast to start, dynamic application server runtime environment
Contributions:7 PRs, 144 pushes, 12 branches in 4 months
open-libertyruntimelibertycomposableruntime-environment
zhangm13/zhangm13.github.io
Sep 2017 - Sep 2019
Contributions:37 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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