Summary
Zekun Yu is a Senior Software Development Engineer based in Bellevue with 12 years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems at Amazon and AWS. He has led migrations and re-architectures that onboarded and monitored over one million devices, dramatically improving scalability and cutting processing latency from minutes to seconds. His work spans microservices, real-time stream processing with Apache Flink, time-series analytics, and ML-based anomaly detection using SageMaker and Timestream, alongside hands-on systems engineering for cross-platform agents and automated rollout pipelines. Zekun has a strong background in data migration, configuration management, and building developer-facing tooling that replaced legacy enterprise systems. He pairs a Master’s in Information Science from UNC-Chapel Hill with practical experience across Windows, Linux, and cloud-native architectures, and is known for turning complex, multi-team challenges into reliable, automated platforms. An underrated strength is his ability to blend deep backend engineering with pragmatic operational design, enabling safe, large-scale change across global environments.
12 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS in management, Management Information Systems, 3.6/4, BS in management, Management Information Systems, 3.6/4 at Hefei University of Technology
Master of Science (MS), Information Science, Master of Science (MS), Information Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill