# Joe Zhao

> Software Engineer

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

Hello, I'm a software engineer

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Hidden Road
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Robinhood
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### iPhone Embedded Systems Software Intern @ Apple
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Cupertino, CA
-Created distributed automated testing and analysis of battery power
-Leveraged machine learning to predict failure type/origin from log files
-Validated configuration registers in different software states
-Wrote scripts to interact with device registers over I2C.

### Software Systems Engineering Intern @ E*TRADE
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, California
-Worked on data pipelines for operational intelligence
-Utilized data products like StreamSets, Kafka, and Elasticsearch to facilitate data collection, management, and transformation
-Designed, tested, and deployed a log parsing pipeline capable of processing 3.5 trillion records per day

### Teaching Assistant, 18-240 @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Teaching assistant for Structure and Design of Digital Systems, a course focused on combinational and  sequential logic, register-transfer design, and assembly level programming. Responsibilities include:
-Teaching logical design and SystemVerilog

-Leading lab sessions and helping students work with FPGAs

-Hosting office hours and grading assignments and exams

Course webpage: https://www.ece.cmu.edu/courses/items/18240.html

### Undergraduate Researcher @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Performing research in the Biorobotics lab, under Howie Choset.
I am working on an embedded vision system.
-Two mounted cameras for stereo vision processing
-Working toward feature detection and tracking to determine depth data
-End goal of visual odometry on an embedded system

### Teaching Assistant, 15-112 @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Pittsburgh Area
Teaching assistant for one of the highest ranked computer science courses in the nation, with almost 500 students total in the course. Responsibilities include:
-Creating lesson plans and teaching Python to students
-Leading large group review lectures for up to 100 students
-Holding small group sessions and office hours
-Reading and debugging code for grading and assistance
-Putting on one of the largest hackathons at CMU for students

Course webpage: http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~112/


## Education
### Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University's College of Engineering


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29