Summary
Weidi Dai is a Senior Software Development Engineer with six years of experience building scalable cloud infrastructure at Amazon Web Services, focused on EC2 Spot. He progressed from intern to senior engineer within AWS, contributing to large-scale archival and streaming pipelines using DynamoDB TTL/Streams, Kinesis, and Lambda to improve Spot capacity efficiency. With an MEng from the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Computer Science (with a math minor) from UW–Madison, he pairs strong algorithmic foundations with production-grade distributed systems skills. He has teaching and mentoring experience in operating systems, networked systems, and algorithms, reflecting both technical depth and an ability to communicate complex concepts. Colleagues can expect a pragmatic engineer who bridges research-quality thinking with cloud-native operational pragmatism.
6 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer and Information science, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer and Information science at University of Pennsylvania
Chinese, English