Shenzhi Zhang
Sr SDE at Amazon
Beijing, Beijing, China
Summary
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Top SchoolShenzhi Zhang is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience building cloud-native SaaS and data-driven systems, currently a Sr SDE at Amazon in Beijing. He blends a strong systems background in Java, C and Python with hands-on expertise in AWS, MySQL and Spark to deliver scalable backends, recommendation engines and content-driven web applications. His work spans machine learning-infused features—video and image detection pipelines—and production deployment using CDN and serverless patterns, reflecting both research-grade algorithms and pragmatic engineering. A Columbia University computer engineering master's graduate, he has improved algorithm performance (e.g., a 10x speedup in geospatial containment checks) and taught university courses in networking and algorithms, bringing both mentoring and optimization rigor to product teams.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Communication Engineering, Bachelor's Degree in Engineering, Communication Engineering at Beijing Jiaotong UniversityMaster's Degree, Computer Engineering, Master's Degree, Computer Engineering at Columbia University
Chinese, English, FrenchGithub contributions (5)
meijieli/Love-Letter
Jan 2017 - Feb 2018
Contributions:5 PRs, 395 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Shenzhi-ZHANG/CourseRelated
Sep 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:195 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
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