# Yezhong Xu > Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Location: Redmond, Washington, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yezhong Experienced Software Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the industry. Hand-on Skills in developing micro-services using Java/Kotlin and Javascript/Typescript. 4 Years+ experience in building scalable, reliable and maintainable backend services and 1 Year + experience in building Kubernetes platform and CI/CD pipelines. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn Jan 2022 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States • Developed AI-assisted InMail features for Recruiters at LinkedIn, including initial outreach messages and internationalization messages. • Improved InMail reporting page to enhance user experience and increase engagement. • Collaborated with cross-functional teams to ensure seamless integration of new features and functionalities. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States As a member in Amazon Grocery Inbound Optimization, which powers the physical segment of Amazon Grocery Supply Chain (GSC) business globally including Amazon Fresh, Prime Now, Amazon Go/Grocery, Whole Foods and more. We aim to perfectly translate all metrics into real business measurement automatically to help Amazon Grocery seeking optimal strategy on connecting supplier, managing purchase and route actual products until they are ready to be sold on shipped to Amazon Grocery customers. The team also aim to speed up all GSC business by providing easy to use, stable and scalable platform on gathering, aggregating, managing and providing facts from various dependencies. ### Software Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area Working in AWS IoT Device Ecosystem: - Launched AWS IoT Core Device Advisor - Device Advisor is a cloud-based, fully managed test capability for validating IoT devices during device software development. Device Advisor provides pre-built tests that you can use to validate IoT devices for reliable and secure connectivity with AWS IoT Core, before deploying devices to production. Device Advisor’s pre-built tests help you validate your device software against best practices for usage of TLS, MQTT, Device Shadow, and IoT Jobs. You can also download signed qualification reports to submit to the AWS Partner Network to get your device qualified for the AWS Partner Device Catalog without the need to send your device in and wait for it to be tested. ### Software Engineer III @ Zume Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Greater Seattle Area Software Engineer shaping the food industry and the life of developers. - Designed scalable and reliable micro-services with NodeJS and Typescript - Built the Zume Platform and enhanced the last mile delivery experience - Created flexible technology stack and API framework to support multiple 3P delivery services - Integrated the delivery updates with the message bus ### Software Engineer II @ Zume Inc. Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Seattle, Washington - Built infrastructure platform on kubernetes, designed the monitoring system, logging system, load balancer, networking, deployment package manager(Helm). - Designed CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and Spinnaker, managing them on kubernetes - Migrated services from Heroku to Kubernetes platform ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, Washington • Designed and implemented an internal search service with Elasticsearch. • Migrated data from DynamoDB to Elasticsearch using AWS Lambda. Provided both updating and backfilling functions for all the JSON data. Designed UI part using Kibana. • Performed unit tests and integration tests using TestNG and Mockito. • Improved searching time from more than an hour to seconds. Learnt how to launch a project from start to end, from writing design-docs and requirements, to using version control and deploying the project. ## Education ### Master’s Degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering New York University Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering Shanghai Jiao Tong University Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ### High School Shanghai High School Jan 2009 – Jan 2012 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yezhongxu --- Source: https://flows.cv/yezhong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yezhong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22