# Austin Zhang

> Software Engineer at DRW

Location: Greater Boston, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/austinzhang

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DRW
Jan 2022 – Present | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Commodities Team

### Software Engineer Intern @ DRW
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Ocient
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States

### Research Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
- Conducted economic research with Jonathan Zinman on the over-assessment of residential property value by the city of Detroit.
- Designed and implemented a heavily optimized, distributed web-scraping program for gathering information on over 300,000 property parcels through over 1,000,000 individual webpages, overall putting the project’s progress ahead by three weeks.
- Wrote distributed software designed for Dartmouth’s HPC cluster to parse, filter, and analyze raw scraped data.
- Carried out miscellaneous data processing and modeling tasks to generate a custom property value model for the city of Detroit.
- Currently assisting a non-profit in building an automated appeal pipeline with Flask, React, and Selenium to help low-income families access fair property tax rates.

### CS10 Teaching Assistant @ Dartmouth College
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hanover, New Hampshire
- Organized and led office hours and study sessions for a class of 100 students using a personalized approach.
- Taught 10-person recitation sections for programming drills and problem set help.
- Collaborated with other TAs and the professor to grade problem sets, exams, and assignments.

### Co-Founder and Software Lead @ Dartride
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Hanover, New Hampshire, United States
- Received $15,000 in funding to complete the project with further funding for maintenance and upkeep.
- Pitched, designed, and implemented a campus ridesharing application working with Dartmouth IT, police, and two teammates.
- Built backend for processing and sending text messages, logging, routing, and communicating with driver and user web applications with AWS Lambda, DynamoDB, Twilio, and OSRM. Later ported the program to use Node and PostgreSQL.
- Initiated early stages of testing with campus security. The program has been shown to more than double efficiency, dropping average ride times from over ten minutes to less than four.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Share Local Media
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
- Contributed minor ruby and javascript features like automatic phone number formatting to triggered mail platform.
- Designed, built, and deployed Shopify application for automated mailing based on customizable triggers and webhooks with Node and React. The application is currently in use by SLM.

### Logistics Intern @ GFS Chemicals
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Columbus, Ohio Area
- Designed and wrote a bin packing and shipping optimization algorithm for low volume chemical shipments in Python. The algorithm has been deployed to production and can pack as efficiently as workers with 20+ years of experience and can process 93% of all orders.
- Collaborated with an outside consultant to port algorithm into Microsoft Dynamics AX ERP system to allow for online shipment pricing and additional customer service tools.

### Research Intern @ The Ohio State University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Columbus, Ohio Area
- Assisted in developing swarm intelligence self-driving car technologies by writing communication protocols.
- Implemented computer vision lane detection and adaptive cruise control algorithms using a Raspberry Pi and low-cost sensors.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
Dartmouth College

### High School Diploma
Columbus Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/austin-zhang-1018

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Last updated: 2026-03-28