# Jake Zhong

> SDE II at Microsoft | ex-Amazon

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jakezhong

Software Engineer with 5+ years of experience designing and developing large-scale, reliable systems. Skilled in building backend API services, full-stack web and hybrid applications, and integrating distributed systems and cloud technologies to deliver secure, low-latency, and responsive user experiences.

Specialties:
Engineering: Algorithm & Data Structures, System Design & Architecture, Frontend & Backend Development, Distributed Systems, Design Patterns, API Design & Integration, Streaming Data, LLMs & Machine Learning, Testing, CI/CD
Leadership: Product Roadmap Planning, Project Management, Cross-functional Collaboration, Agile Development
Software: Java, Python, JavaScript, TypeScript, PHP, Node.js, React, React Native, Spring Boot, Django, SQL, MySQL, NoSQL, Kafka, CDN, AWS (EC2, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch), CI/CD Pipelines, Kubernetes, Git, Gen AI, JUnit, RESTful APIs, HTML, CSS/SCSS

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2026 – Present | Redmond, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Prime Video & Amazon MGM Studios
Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
- Led the design and development of Prime Video’s playback controls and Alexa integration, enabling seamless interaction through devices and voice commands for playback, advanced search, and personalized recommendations.
- Built and tested playback features using React Native, TypeScript, and Jest, and deployed the application through AWS CI/CD pipelines with automated unit and integration testing.
- Improved performance by minimizing rendering overhead, eliminating redundancy, and creating reusable components to enhance maintainability, readability, and scalability.
- Designed and implemented an A/B testing framework to safely roll out new features, support controlled experiments, and enable quick rollbacks to reduce production risk.

### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, CA
- Led the design and development of the large-scale, highly available AmazonUI framework runtime, leveraging Kubernetes and AWS S3 to serve millions of daily page views across the retail site.
- Built, tested, and documented core onboarding service for Amazon’s Retail microservice framework using AWS (S3, DynamoDB, ECS, Kubernetes), adopted by 100+ teams to accelerate onboarding and simplify production deployments.
- Designed and implemented a data collection and analytics pipeline for critical product metrics using a distributed job scheduler, AWS Glue, and Spark to run ETL jobs for centralized data aggregation, integrating CloudWatch for monitoring and dashboards for visualizing business insights and operational health.
- Diagnosed and optimized the service integration test infrastructure with Node.js, Jest, and CDK, cutting test runtime by 40% and improving CI/CD pipeline efficiency.

### Web and App Developer @ Recited Verse
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Led a full-stack engineering team to build a multimedia, poem-based social media platform for web and mobile, enabling users to share poems, recordings, and collaborate in public or private groups.
- Designed, implemented, and tested RESTful APIs with Django and PostgreSQL to support user profiles, groups, media storage, and content recommendations, integrating with AWS S3 for scalable file management and deploying via Heroku.
- Developed rich, responsive UIs using React and React Native, partnering with designers to improve the app’s interface and drive user retention, resulting in partnerships with five universities and colleges.
- Mentored two junior engineers on clean coding practices, architecture principles, and full-stack best practices.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Openprise
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | 1900 S Norfolk St Suite #210, San Mateo, CA 94403
- Developed an iOS and Android mobile business card scanner app used by 100+ companies to manage client information.
- Integrated an API portal to handle requests from 4 NLP endpoints, allow users to scan business cards, save new clients to the CRM, and read info from existing clients.
- Used Google ML Kit and an entity analyzer with NLP to extract data with 80% accuracy with a 2-second average latency.
- Architected the Object-Oriented structure and analyzed results to ensure accuracy and prevent duplicate titles.
- Integrated an API portal to handle requests from multiple endpoints for the app to communicate with the CRM.

### Full Stack Developer @ Jackrabbit Design
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 | 333 Edge Hill Road, Milton, MA
- Designed, developed, tested, and delivered 30+ end-to-end projects for clients including MIT, Harvard University, Inkcups, and The Middlesex Corporation.
- Collaborated with project managers and designers to translate business and design requirements into responsive full-stack websites and web applications using HTML/CSS/SCSS, JavaScript, and jQuery for frontends, and PHP/MySQL with RESTful APIs for backends.
- Designed and developed in-house reusable frameworks, components, and templates, optimizing development workflows and reducing project timelines by up to 30% through improved scalability and efficiency.

### Web Development Intern @ CHT4 Corporation
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | One Broadway, Cambridge, MA
- Integrated social media platforms into a social profile that hosts users’ personal information and social links using Laravel. 
- Generated QR codes for physical business cards to redirect to the social profiles and streamline information sharing.
- Implemented multiple responsive and reusable templates and UI components for the site login portal, navbar, and Profile page using HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and Bootstrap to maintain consistent branding.
- Developed forms with validation and error prevention to improve the user experience.
Integrated Laravel code with the MySQL database to allow users to create digital and print business cards.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
University of San Francisco
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Master of Science - MS in Digital Media with a focus in Interactive Design
Northeastern University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Multimedia and Network Technology
South China Normal University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jake-zhong
- Website: https://www.jakezhong.com

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Last updated: 2026-03-29