Summary
Pengyu Zhang is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience and a current role at Amazon Web Services while pursuing an MS in Computer Engineering at New York University. He combines a strong foundation from UC San Diego in Mathematics and Computer Science with practical internships at Lark Health and TD Tech that exposed him to healthcare and industrial-scale engineering. Comfortable across cloud-native systems and core engineering tasks, he brings both academic rigor and production discipline to system design and implementation. Known for rapidly adapting to new environments, he leverages a math-first perspective to reason about performance and correctness. Based in the United States, he balances graduate research with enterprise development, making him effective at translating complex requirements into reliable software. An engineer who values learning by doing, he often seeks roles that bridge research insights and real-world impact.
8 years of coding experience
University of California, San Diego
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at New York University