Yunchen Zhang
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunchen Zhang is a software engineer with 10+ years of experience building backend services and mobile apps, currently contributing to AWS on MQTT large-payload support using Java, DynamoDB, Lambda, S3 and Protocol Buffers. He holds an MS in Computer Science from Santa Clara University and has a track record of performance-driven engineering—at Agilean he cut data load times from 5s to 500ms through data-model reorganization and caching optimizations. As a founder he launched a gay dating app that reached 200,000 users in three months, demonstrating product intuition, growth execution, and full-stack delivery across iOS and server systems. He pairs hands-on systems work (load and canary testing, Node.js mock clients, ASG tuning) with pragmatic architecture choices to decouple and scale services. Notably, his experience spans both consumer-facing growth engineering and large-scale cloud infrastructure, enabling him to bridge user needs and operational constraints.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Wuhan UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Santa Clara University
Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
zyunchen/BookExchange
Apr 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:19 pushes, 1 branch in 15 days
zyunchen/InvoiceManagement-backend
Oct 2023 - Nov 2023
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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