Summary
Simon Zhang is a Software Development Engineer II based in Seattle with eight years of experience building secure, large-scale cloud infrastructure at Microsoft and AWS. He specializes in Azure SQL security and identity-driven automation, having improved incident response with a Just-In-Time engagement mechanism and shifted secret token interactions to declarative templates. At AWS he operated and hardened an SDN control plane serving millions of data-plane endpoints, led integration testing initiatives that doubled feedback speed, and automated host scaling to cut manual intervention by 65%. Simon blends a strong statistics/math background from UCLA and De Anza with hands-on systems engineering, focusing on reducing blast radius and operational toil. He’s comfortable operating at the intersection of security, automation, and networking, with a track record of translating complex requirements into measurable reliability and security gains.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Mathematics, 3.94, Associate's degree, Mathematics, 3.94 at De Anza College
Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, 3.62, Bachelor of Science - BS, Statistics, 3.62 at University of California, Los Angeles