# George Zhou

> Computer Science and Math at Carnegie Mellon University | Full-Stack Experience | Amazon Web Services Software Developer

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/georgezhou

I have years of teaching experience in CS, requiring extensive knowledge of data structures, algorithms, and functional programming. I also have experience working with front-end technologies like HTML, CSS, JavaScript, React-Native, and Node.JS. I have some experience with back-end technologies like MySQL. Furthermore, I have experience working with cloud-computing, working with AWS in my past internships.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2024 – Present | East Palo Alto, California, United States
AWS Console Proxy

### Head Teacher Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
• Co-lead a team of 40+ TAs to lead the effort in grading, office hours, and room assignments
• Incorporate feedback from students and TAs to provide better learning and teaching experience
• Led the initiative to add collaborative office hours, leading to collaborative learning and enjoyable homework experience
• Added automation to manual checking of 2 homework problems, reducing time per TA by 2 hours on grading

### Teacher Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
15-150 (Principles of Functional Programming) [F22, S23, F23]
15-122 (Principles of Imperative Computation) [S21, F21, S21]
• Graded homework and exams
• Taught labs with 25+ students with engaging and humorous presentations
• Accumulated 1566 Karma points (a system to keep track of contributions) on our class discussion forum
• Created dozens of memes related to content taught in class to increase engagement
• Held office hours to
• Developed 3 new homework problems, designing new data structures/algorithms for students to implement, and used git and pull requests to maintain our large homework code base
• Led initiative to improve the readability and cleanliness of our code database and online queue system

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | East Palo Alto, California, United States
Worked in AWS Console Proxy, which owns the console.aws.amazon.com domain.
• Added automatic approvals to our team’s workflows, saving 10 hours every time they deployed a change
• Migrated and simplified our team’s testing infrastructure from Ruby to Typescript, using 50% fewer testing resources, having 10x faster startup time, and 10x fewer lines of code
• Designed a new scalable testing framework, integrating with AWS, Jest, and Puppeteer to test our team’s services
• Collaborated with my team to determine pain points of current testing architecture

### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | East Palo Alto, California, United States
Worked in AWS Console Proxy, which owns the console.aws.amazon.com domain.
• They proxy requests between customers and service consoles, as well as provide a default region service.
• Deployed an internal AWS console that allows our team to run health checks and unit tests
• Implemented a canary using Javascript Puppeteer, which runs a test every minute to efficiently determine whether our team’s services are working
• Communicated with various teams to conduct security reviews and console deployments
• Worked with large code bases in Ruby to automate creating part of our team’s 1000s of AWS resources

### Amazon Future Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Worked in KDP, creating an internal website to automate a process involving bank details, preventing tickets from being created every day.
• Used Bootstrap, React, Typescript, and React-Router for design, page navigation, and submission.
• Worked with a large variety of AWS services, like API Gateway, CDK, DynamoDB, Lambda, Cloudfront, Route53.
• To add security, used AWS Cognito to make sure only certain users can call the API.
• Used Regex for handling and manipulating inputs.
• Used the React Testing Library and Enzyme to create unit tests.

### Teacher Assistant @ ABCMATH ACADEMY
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Flushing, New York
ABCMath is a tutoring place that serves 3rd-12th graders in maths, sciences, and English.
• Graded homework, classwork, and quizzes that students are assigned
• Tutored students in between classes to help those falling behind.
• Worked closely with the Director to create a new course for computer science
• During the COVID-19 outbreak, created solution packets for homework, graded online work, and offered online video sessions. Also helped the Director set up a system for online learning using Moodle.

### Senior Caucus Director of IT @ Stuyvesant High School
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States
Worked on creating programs for the Senior Caucus:
• Used a Google Calendar API to take events on Naviance Website onto a Google Calendar
• Created a website in which students can sign up for available dates for their proposals (which didn't end up being used due to COVID-19 outbreak)
• Created a Github Pages to compile all the things that the Senior Caucus created, such as a Senior Banner, College Map, and a collage


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science, Additional in Mathematics
Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024

### Computer Science in Mathematics, Tutoring
Stuyvesant High School
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/georgezhou1248

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Last updated: 2026-03-22