Tony Zhu
MFA Screenwriting Student at USC School of Cinematic Arts
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolTony Zhu is an experienced software engineer-turned-screenwriter currently pursuing an MFA at USC, bringing 11 years of practical engineering experience to storytelling and media projects. Formerly on Amazon’s Seller Central team, he designed compliant financial event systems and worked extensively with AWS services to scale internal reporting infrastructure. As owner of Tony Digital LLC he built production-grade desktop apps for harm reduction and created viral technical content—his Factorio video amassed 1.7M views and his channel reached over 2M total views. He blends systems-thinking from backend engineering with creative communication, making complex technical ideas accessible and entertaining. Based in Seattle, he’s also an avid rock climber and poker player who enjoys tackling “cool problems” both in code and narrative form.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electronic Systems Engineering Technology, Bachelor of Science - BS Electronic Systems Engineering Technology at Texas A&M UniversityHigh School Diploma Computer Science, High School Diploma Computer Science at Phillips Exeter AcademyBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Western Governors University
Chinese
Github Skills (14)
discord-bot5
discord-js5
arch5
discord4
archlinux4
linux3
vim3
chrome-extension2
bots1
chat1
python1
javascript1
azure-cognitive-services1
chatbot1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
snickerton/LilyDiscordBot
Nov 2018 - Oct 2019
A discord bot to help people with speaking disabilities be vocal in servers
Contributions:6 commits, 1 PR, 4 pushes in 11 months
discord-jsdiscordbotdiscord-botspeaking
snickerton/snickerton.github.legacy
Mar 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:2 PRs, 181 pushes, 6 branches in 2 years 4 months
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.