Michael Zhou
Software Engineer at Microsoft
Redmond, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Zhou is a backend-focused software engineer with nine years of professional experience, currently contributing to Azure Host OS Deployment at Microsoft. He brings strong foundations in algorithms, system design, and distributed systems, and has built microservices and data-driven platforms using Java, Spring Boot, Kafka, Redis, MongoDB, Docker, and AWS. With four years of web development and a year as a full-stack developer, he pairs backend rigor with practical front-end experience in React and Node.js to deliver end-to-end solutions. His background includes roles at startups and research settings, reflecting an ability to move between fast-paced product engineering and infrastructure reliability. A University of Pennsylvania SEAS alumnus who also studied computer science at Boston University, he holds a U.S. green card and a track record of shipping production services at scale. Not obvious from titles: he combines low-level concurrency and sharding expertise with hands-on deployment experience in cloud host infrastructure.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/40, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8/40 at Boston University
Github Skills (1)
android7
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
ZhouMichael/Sorting-Algorithms-Mathematica
Sep 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
ZhouTech/Schneider-Donor-Lookup
Sep 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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