# Yichi Zhang

> Software Engineer at Amazon.com

Location: Redwood City, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yichi

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## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2022 – Present | Palo Alto, California, United States
Work @ Rufus & Search Engine
- Build and optimize Rufus LLM Inference, with Vllm and AWS Neuron
- Develop amazon.com search engine infrastructure

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | Greater Seattle Area
Work @ AWS
- Build foundational security infrastructure and services w.r.t. short-term credentials
- Build EC2 underlying infrastructure - improving EC2 security & instance launch speed
- Build for AWS EC2 Instance Connect

### Research Assistant @ University of Pittsburgh Department of Medicine
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Pittsburgh
Built a terabyte level time-series data analysis platform

### IT Developer @ ZTE Corporation
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
Developed a user-friendly machine learning algorithm builder and worked closely with Docker


## Education
### Master of Science - MS
University of Pittsburgh School of Computing and Information
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019

### Bachelor's degree in Geographic Information Science and Cartography
Nanjing Normal University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2017

### Geospatial Science
Saint Louis University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yiz141
- GitHub: https://github.com/CptTZ

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Last updated: 2026-03-22