# Bill Zhu

> Software Engineer @ Superstate

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/bill

backend and infra engineer in web3

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Superstate
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Coinbase
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Remote
Crypto Reliability Founding Team

### Quantitative Development Intern @ Akuna Capital
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Chicago, Illinois, United States
Crypto Desk

### Software Engineer Extern @ Pure Storage
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States
Prototyped automation for Pure Storage's Cloud Block Store using AWS, Kubernetes, and Golang

### Machine Learning Researcher @ AMISTAD Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Claremont, CA, USA
- Investigated formalization of ML, search, and compression subset relations using information theory bounds
- Researched overfitting generalization bound theory

### Grutor @ Harvey Mudd College
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Pasadena, California, United States
Graded and/or tutored (grutor) the following
- MATH 055 Discrete Math
- CSCI 081 Computability and Logic
- PHYS 084 Quantum Information
- CSCI 159 Natural Language Processing

### Software Engineer Intern @ Intuit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Mountain View, California, United States
- Intuit Futures Group
- Refactored and integrated NLP Lean Parsing module to Knowledge Engineering platform
- Trained embeddings of tax domain tokens using nltk and Tensorflow
- Improved overall runtime by up to 40% and improved/unified parsing logic

### Software Engineer Intern @ OpenX
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Pasadena
- OpenX Exchange Team
- Designed and developed distributed load testing/capacity benchmarking framework for OpenX's Exchange components using Locust, Apache Thrift, Docker, Jenkins, and Kubernetes.
- Deployed on prem and on Google Cloud and performed initial benchmarking for services.

### Physics Teacher @ SpringLight Education Institute
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Cupertino, California
Created and taught a 10-day, 25 hour introductory physics course.

### Astrophysics Researcher @ University of Florida
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Gainesville, Florida Area
- Researched Milky Way-like galaxies using signal-boosting image stacking technique
- Developed Python package for processing Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) quasar and star imaging data using scikit-learn machine learning libraries to model point-spread function (PSF) data
- Published first-author paper in Monthly Notice of the Royal Astronomical Society (MNRAS)


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Mathematics and Computer Science
Harvey Mudd College

### Lynbrook High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thebillzhu

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Last updated: 2026-03-20