# Yazhe Zhu

> Software Engineer at Meta | ex-Amazon

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yazhezhu

Skilled professional tech leads with over 8 years of experience designing and developing software of data platform.

Proficient in backend development using Java, Python, Scala, JavaScript with AWS cloud technology.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Washington DC-Baltimore Area
GenAI Application

### Software Development Manager @ Amazon
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Arlington, Virginia, United States
•	Designed, developed, deployed and maintained the recommendation infrastructure for Amazon Ads Sponsored Brands, including the areas of keyword recommendation, bid suggestion, and budget recommendation.
•	Led the end-to-end design with 10+ cross teams and implementation of the Amazon Advertiser Experiment Platform, which enabled advertisers conducting A/B experimentations on their Amazon Ads campaigns to identify the specific variation with the best performance.
•	Led the design and implementation of a team of 8 SDEs for Amazon Ads auto targeting and bidding feature, which simply advertisers user experience of creating ads and targeting.

### Senior Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Amazon Ads

### Technical Lead/Software Engineer Manager @ SilverRail
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Boston
•	Led team to tear down a monolithic application to microservices using docker, kubernetes.
•	Improved data integration, management and analytics model to feed the entire company system and provide analytics report by AWS cloud technology.
•	Managed a team to build micro-service system to solve end to end complicated rail problems using Java, docker, kubernetes, AWS cloud technology.

### Full Stack Software Engineer @ Scholastic
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater New York City Area
•	Developed and maintained multiple web-based (desktop and mobile) applications, platform and services as well as digital content production 
•	Established the strategy to deliver shared technology platform, services; implemented tools to standardize digital content production and delivery pipeline 
•	Led the production support team to rapid solve customer issues
•	Developed a performance test framework in CI/CD pipeline for all groups
•	Oversees the automation test improvement and maintenance in eCommerce group

### Software Engineer @ Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Boston Area
•	Led the data analysis team to design automation strategies
•	Utilized developer APIs to verify and validate the accuracy and integrity of data, reduced the validation time from 3 man-weeks to 15 minutes
•	Developed a performance test framework to generate performance baseline during continuous integration process using Jenkins, Taurus and Blazemeter
•	Designed the strategy to monitor the performance related behaviors, showing the bottleneck, trends and significant changes after each build
•	Created automated post-deployment tool to verified all applications on the production sites


## Education
### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Physcis
Tufts University

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Physics
Wuhan University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yazhe-zhu-008825122

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Last updated: 2026-04-05