Summary
Tim Zhang is a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon with eight years of engineering experience and an MS in Computer Science from the University of Michigan. He builds large-scale backend systems for AWS S3 and now works on ad sourcing for Amazon Ads, having contributed to S3 Storage Lens, Request Metrics, and Inventory services. His background spans research and applied engineering—from developing recommender systems and Hanabi agent pipelines at UC Davis to rebuilding neurobehavioral tooling and eye-tracking workflows for primate research. Comfortable across Python, Java, R, and production cloud services, he brings a researcher’s attention to data-driven system design and a knack for reverse-engineering messy pipelines into maintainable solutions. Based in Seattle, he blends academic research experience with production-grade cloud engineering at scale.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science and Engineering at University of Michigan