Zihang Chen
SDE II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZihang Chen is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years of experience, currently building scalable computational platforms at Amazon in Seattle. He has deep practical experience with a proprietary Lisp dialect used to compute much of the data shown on Amazon’s retail site, and previously advanced that platform as an SDE I. Zihang holds a Master's in Computer Science from Columbia and a Bachelor's in Information Security from Wuhan University, blending strong academic foundations with production-grade engineering. Fascinated by functional programming, he brings a declarative mindset to designing reliable, composable systems. Early work includes prototyping a bidirectional assembly code transformer, showing a knack for low-level tooling and language-oriented design. Not actively looking for new roles, he nonetheless remains engaged in evolving large-scale computation infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Information Security, 3.3/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Information Security, 3.3/4.0 at Wuhan UniversityMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.5/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 3.5/4.0 at Columbia University in the City of New York
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (56)
graph-algorithms10
python10
converter10
network-analysis10
graph-analysis10
graph-visualization10
complex-networks10
graph-theory10
table-of-contents9
markdown9
facebook9
markup9
commonmark9
markup-language9
haskell9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
fnmdx111/Towel
Sep 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:1 release, 279 commits, 15 PRs in 2 months
functional-programmingslowhaskellcompilerprogramming-language
mad4alcohol/woj-land
Dec 2014 - Apr 2015
Contributions:1 release, 47 commits, 18 pushes in 3 months
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