# Rose Zhou

> Roblox Software Engineer

Location: San Mateo, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/rosezhou

Feel free to see some of my projects on github: https://github.com/rmz38

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Present

### Head Teaching Assistant for Introduction to Game Design @ Cornell University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York, United States
As part of the Game Design Initiative at Cornell (https://gdiac.cis.cornell.edu/) introductory course, we advised student projects, gave feedback on programming labs, judged design of student games, and supervised discussion sections. I created Pyrokid (https://rmz38.github.io/pyrokid/) to replace an educational Flash game after the original game became unplayable with the deprecation of Flash. Me and another TA also worked on a new website design of https://gdiac.cis.cornell.edu/ that will be used in 2022 made with Ruby Jekyll.

### Computer Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Ithaca, New York Area
I was responsible for updating resources on the East Asia Department's website with Drupal to edit HTML and CSS.

### Undergraduate Research Assistant @ Cornell University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York, United States

### Game Developer @ AI-Learners
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca, New York, United States
AI-Learners is a start-up run by ~20 Cornell University students with a mission of making learning easier, personalized, and more fun for kids with learning disabilities through educational math games and data analytics. All games are made with JavaScript Frameworks like PixiJS and React at https://ai-learners.com/

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
As an intern, I added pagination to an internal tool using Java, internal backend tools, and JavaScript. In addition, I wrote 10+ pages of documentation for this project and code reviews, and mentored a newly hired team on the tool's codebase.

### Full Stack Developer @ Cornell Design & Tech Initiative
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Ithaca, New York, United States
Cornell DTI is a project team of 80+ designers, developers, product managers, and business members passionate about making change on campus and beyond. Recently I worked on https://queueme.in/, a site that queries hundreds of student questions for class office hours. Our team created the product using node.js, Firebase, and React.

Previously I worked on https://courseplan.io/, a website that plans 4 years of courses for Cornell students. Our team of 10 developers/designers used JavaScript, Vue.js, and Firebase.

### Software Engineer Intern @ JPMorgan Chase & Co.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | New York City Metropolitan Area
During the Software Engineer Intern Program, me and 5 other interns created a site using Python Flask, React.js, and Firebase to help a local nonprofit organize their volunteering schedule and training, as well as Kafka servers and Django APIs. We also debugged Java code using JUnit, IntelliJ/Pycharm and unittest to debug Python code.

### Teaching Assistant @ Jamesville-DeWitt High School
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dewitt, NY
Assisted the instructor of the Intro to Computer Science Course at Jamesville-Dewitt High School by helping students with Scratch, BlueJ, and Java assignments


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Cornell University
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022

### Internation Summer Exchange Program in E-Commerce/Electronic Commerce
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rose-zhou-752744177
- Website: https://rmz38.github.io/personal-site/

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Last updated: 2026-03-22