Summary
Yuxuan Zhang is a software engineer with eight years of experience blending cloud services, ML research, and full-stack development, currently contributing to the core engine of AWS Database Migration Service. He has a strong academic foundation—MS in Data Science from UC San Diego and prior Ph.D. (ECE) study at University of Florida—paired with practical ML work on VAE and Transformer models for protein mutation at the Salk Institute. Yuxuan moves fluidly between production systems and research-driven projects, from ZeroETL RDS Oracle-to-Redshift integrations at AWS to RAG pipeline optimization and Node.js-backed personalization services at startups. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end features in high-scale environments while optimizing model-backed pipelines for real-world performance. Based in Boston, he brings a curious, cross-disciplinary approach that often surfaces non-obvious solutions at the intersection of databases, ML, and systems engineering.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics, Bachelor of Science - BS, Informatics at University of Washington
University of California, San Diego
English, Chinese