# Eric Zaks

> Software Engineer at Anduril Industries

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer - Mission Autonomy @ Anduril Industries
Jan 2023 – Present

### Algorithms TA @ Tufts University
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
I was a Teaching Assistant for Tufts CS 160 - Algorithms. I held office hours for students, led recitations, and graded assignments.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I was an SDE on the AWS DataSync team. My project was to add customer-facing metrics to the data migration service that track and report compression information. I modified every level of the tech stack, including work in multithreaded C++ repos and the front-end layer.

### Research Assistant @ Tufts Autonomous Intelligent Robotics Lab
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021
I was a research assistant at the Autonomous Intelligent Robotics Lab at Tufts. The goal of my research was to develop algorithms to allow machines to autonomously adapt to changes in their environments using reinforcement learning and other methods. My project was primarily centered around detecting novelties and creatively solving problems in Minecraft.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Liberty Mutual Insurance
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I built and maintained Spring Boot and Node.js REST APIs with working endpoints, tests, and deployment pipelines to enable developers around the company to quickly stand up their own applications by augmenting these patterns with new capabilities. I also developed proof of concept work for patterns based on Kafka Event-Driven Architecture.

### Machine Learning Intern @ Fairmarkit
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Boston, Massachusetts, United States
I worked as a Machine Learning intern at a procurement software startup. I analyzed transactional data, visualized trends, expanded the vendor database, and improved the recommendation engine by training deep learning models to perform NLP on search queries.

### DevOps Engineering Intern @ 4G Clinical
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States
I worked as a DevOps Engineer at a clinical trial software company, writing a suite of Python scripts to automate tasks for developers and perform backend testing. In addition, I assisted colleagues with stack issues, made Jenkins more efficient, and identified ways to reduce AWS spending.

### Electrical Engineering Intern @ Barrett Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Greater Boston Area
I worked as an Electrical Engineer, designing and reviewing PCBs for use in the company's robotics products. I contributed to several projects and some of my designs ship with new models.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Applied Math
Tufts University

### The Roxbury Latin School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-zaks-947a48193
- Portfolio: https://www.ericzaks.com/

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Last updated: 2026-03-31