Rick Zhao
Principal Technical Program Manager at Amazon
Dongcheng District, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Zhao is a Principal Technical Program Manager with over 15 years of experience designing and delivering cross-border logistics, telecommunications, and cloud solutions for multinational firms including Amazon and Ericsson. He combines hands-on solution architecture with program leadership, having led distributed teams across the US, Europe, and China to ship cloud, 5G, NFV and IoT products at scale. Known as a persuasive technology evangelist, he bridges executive customers, partner ecosystems (VMware, Red Hat) and engineering teams to turn prototypes into product roadmaps. His career spans technical depth from IP/MPLS, NFV and container orchestration to BSS/OSS and large-scale logistics systems, enabling both product innovation and operational delivery. Fluent in English and Chinese, he is recognized for building high-performing teams that deliver under ambiguity and tight cross-border constraints. An unexpected thread through his work is repeatedly translating research-grade technologies into commercially deployed gateways and shipping platforms showcased at industry events like MWC.
10 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering at Beijing University of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (5)
csharp2
wpf1
datagrid1
modular1
dotnet1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
RickZhao/ZhiHu-Pro
Mar 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:24 commits, 4 branches in 1 month
rongcloud/rongcloud-uniapp-imlib
Jan 2022 - Jan 2022
Contributions:1 commit, 1 push in 1 day
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