Yiyang Zeng
Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYiyang Zeng is a software development engineer based in Seattle with 8 years of experience building distributed, high-performance systems and customer-facing applications. At AWS he has led end-to-end delivery—architecture, CI/CD, testing and maintenance—driving measurable improvements such as 30% lower latencies, 40% infrastructure cost savings, and a tenfold increase in committed users. He combines backend strength (transactional systems and optimization) with frontend and full-stack experience from earlier roles, and uses data-driven metrics to cut downtime and reduce critical incidents by 90%. A former AWS intern who contributed to an open-source EC2 CLI project, he also mentors junior engineers and structures work to boost team productivity by about 30%. His background includes an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and practical experience shipping production software across academia and industry.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at New York UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Shenzhen Middle School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (15)
predict9
agent-based-modeling9
modeling8
python7
camera7
agent7
aws5
computer-vision5
machine-learning4
deep-learning4
route534
cli4
tensorflow4
aws-cli4
reinforcement-learning2
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
zyyhhxx/VizingAlgoAnimation
May 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:22 commits, 15 pushes, 2 branches in 2 years 4 months
zyyhhxx/LearningToDrive
Oct 2019 - May 2020
A deep learning project to predict car steering and speed based on front camera images
Contributions:113 commits, 91 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
learning-projectpythonspeeddeep-learningcamera
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