Terry Zhang
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTerry Zhang is a Software Development Engineer II at AWS specializing in the RDS Aurora MySQL/PostgreSQL control plane, combining eight years of engineering experience with a Business & Computer Science background from UBC Sauder. He builds reliable distributed systems and control-plane features at scale, having progressed from intern to SDE II on the same team. Terry’s experience spans backend Java services, RESTful microservices, and accessibility-conscious React components from earlier roles, giving him a practical full-stack perspective. Equally comfortable discussing product trade-offs and technical design, he thrives at the intersection of business and technology. Notably, he has taught relational databases as a university TA, reflecting both deep domain knowledge and a knack for explaining complex concepts. Based in Greater Vancouver, he brings curiosity-driven problem solving to production-grade cloud infrastructure.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Combined Major in Business and Computer Science, Senior, Bachelor of Commerce - BCom, Combined Major in Business and Computer Science, Senior at The University of British Columbia
English, Chinese
Github Skills (14)
cors8
headers8
nodejs5
aws5
continuous-deployment5
docker-compose5
docker5
proxy4
reverse-proxy4
golang4
java4
devops4
cors-anywhere3
kubernetes2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
terryz21/CPSC210
May 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:3 commits, 2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
terryz21/PDF-File-Merger
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Contributions:5 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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