Zihang Xu
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolZihang Xu is a Software Development Engineer II with a decade of experience building scalable backend systems, currently contributing at AWS from Bellevue, WA. He holds an MS in Computer Software Engineering from Carnegie Mellon Silicon Valley and a BE from Nanjing University, combining strong academic rigor (3.9 GPA) with practical impact. At Alibaba he optimized batch-processing throughput and built monitoring components with Spring Boot, Redis, and React, improving TPS by 10% and cutting response time by 20%. At AWS he has progressed from SDE to SDE II, focusing on production-grade services and operational visibility. Known for bridging deep engineering fundamentals with hands-on optimization, he’s comfortable across distributed systems, observability, and performance tuning.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, 3.9, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, 3.9 at Carnegie Mellon University Silicon ValleyBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8 at Nanjing University
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Github Skills (6)
kubernetes5
netflow1
tushare1
saltstack1
netconf1
ospf1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
FloatErrorAnalysis/Float-Error-Neural-Network-N
Nov 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:18 commits, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
UnionApt/UnionApt-MiniProgram-UI
Sep 2019 - Feb 2020
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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