# Aiden Zhang > Software Engineer at Traba Location: United States, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aidenzhang ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Traba Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area Traba is building a world where the global supply chain operates at peak efficiency. We connect industrial businesses with reliable workers to fill open shifts and empower both businesses and workers to reach their full productivity and potential. Backed by Founders Fund, Khosla Ventures, and General Catalyst. ### SDE Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Designed and implemented a project that monitors unexpected recovery actions of RDS Aurora instances during workflows, improving visibility on failure trends across millions of instances - Authored the design document considering alternatives and trade-offs, proposing implementation, testing and deployment strategies, resulting in swift approval from key stakeholders - Developed the project using Java and Spring with design patterns such abstract factories, composites, adapters, and the strategy pattern to contribute robust and maintainable code - Tested my code with JUnit and the Mockito framework, reaching upwards of 95% line and branch coverage ### Software Engineer Intern @ Roblox Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | San Mateo County, California, United States - Created a software system that tracked the cost and utilization of machine learning products across 10+ Kubernetes clusters, exposing efficiency metrics for AWS expenditures of more than $1M per year - Extracted cost and utilization metrics from Prometheus and Yotascale to expose operational insights ranging from multi-cluster aggregates down to individual pods, delivered through SuperSet Dashboards - Pioneered a novel deployment strategy for tree and forest models by converting them with RAPIDS FIL and deploying them onto NVIDIA Triton Inference Servers, resulting in a 43% inference speed increase for the production payment fraud detection LightGBM model ### Data Scientist Intern @ StratumAI Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Remote - Developed modules of the new model evaluation pipeline that allowed for the simultaneous analysis of various block models, providing greater flexibility to find the most optimized model for desired metrics - Created the data and model loading module that relied upon regex matching and multiprocessing pool to accurately and efficiently load desired objects - Leveraged the Python Hashlib blake2b hashing function to implement the result saver module which identified and cached previously computed metrics, greatly decreasing redundant computations ### Technical Undergraduate Co-op @ Cisco Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Devised a tool that facilitated and improved the query of GitHub PR by caching data in a PostgreSQL database, alleviating traffic on the enterprise servers, and improving the workflow of over 3000 developers at Cisco • Implemented inbound and outbound backend API using Golang which transformed raw webhook data into categorized table entries and served query results to front end clients • Designed the frontend experience with Python, Flask, and Bootstrap 4, creating a clean and efficient interface that offered more flexibility and filtering granularity than the native GitHub PR searching tool • Created a standalone python script that could quickly retrieve and aggregate the mailer of various Github Code Owner groups into an easily consumable JSON, giving developers at Cisco an effortless method of finding and contacting the owners of any file in their extensive codebase ### Software Infrastructure @ Ford Motor Company Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ottawa, Ontario, Canada • Developed test suites using the Slash Python library that verified the stability of the telematics control unit on Ford vehicles • Identified and resolved incompatibility issues with outdated dependencies which repaired previously failing tests ### Junior Software Developer - Co-op Student @ Solace Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Kanata, Canada • Volunteered to simultaneously partake in both the Continuous Integration/Continuous Development team and the Software as a Service team to develop solutions to client requests and improve development pipelines for developers, completing 6 multi-part stories over 4 months • Refined Jenkins pipelines and developed microservices to automatically notify Slack channels of nightly test pipelines results through asynchronous REST API endpoints created using Spring Boot and Groovy, helping developer quickly analyze and identify test failures in pipelines every morning • Resolved pipeline issue where the White Source Jenkins plugin could not identify license violations in our codebase by modifying the pipeline to perform the White Source scanning through a docker container, improving the security of over 20 repositories • Designed and developed an automation system that transitioned Jira issues from a Delivered tag to a Deployed tag using Groovy scripts to retrieve deployment data and call the Jira API to transition relevant issues, ultimately reducing the time lost by developers manually transitioning the resolved issues • Developed a client requested feature by analyzing the legacy codebase and implementing a solution that allows the modern user interface to make REST API that is compatible with legacy functions • Assisted with the development and deployment of a company hackathon website for UOttahack 2020 using Ansible scripts that de-ployed the source code to an AWS S3 bucket and used a CloudFormation template to set up a stack containing AWS Cloudfront and a Route53 domain name for the website • Built an Uber-like, rideshare web application during an in-company hackathon using the Aurelia framework, SASS, and Google CloudPlatform’s Pub/Sub service, creating an event-driven architecture that could demonstrate the event discovery feature of the company’s product ### Hacker at cuHacking @ cuHacking Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area Participated in the cuHacking Hackathon held in Carleton University under the team of Bug Overflow. Over the span of 24 hours, our team made a single player arena top-down shooter where the user plays as Octocat (Mascot of Github) as he defeats round after round of merging conflicts (enemies) as they continue to increase in numbers after every round. ### Vice President of Production @ Key-Pers Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area Junior Achievement / Student Entrepreneurship: Worked as VP of Production, designing the manufacturing process for custom made leather keychains made using only recycled materials and organizing the production team for the smooth execution of the assembly process. ### Academic Tutor @ Earl of March Secondary School Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area I worked with a younger grade student to improve their mathematical aptitudes by targeting their weaknesses and reinforcing their strengths. ### Store Cashier @ Dollarama L.P. Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Ottawa, Canada Area I managed the cash register as well as performing tasks such as stocking, recovery, and cleaning duties. ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering University of Waterloo ### High School Diploma in General Studies Earl of March Secondary School ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aiden-zhang --- Source: https://flows.cv/aidenzhang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aidenzhang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05