# Zidong J. > Senior Software Engineer at Hertz Location: San Mateo, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/zidong Proactive engineer focusing on backend development. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Hertz Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Building digitalized customer experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Turo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Turo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States Turo is the world’s largest car sharing marketplace where you can book any car you want, wherever you want it, from a vibrant community of trusted hosts across the US, Canada, and the UK. Whether you’re flying in from afar or looking for a car down the street, searching for a rugged truck or something smooth and swanky, guests can take the wheel of the perfect car for any occasion, while hosts can take the wheel of their futures by building an accessible, flexible, and scalable car sharing business from the ground up. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Sunnyvale, California, United States Alexa Auto Core SDK Team ### Teaching Assistant @ San Jose State University Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area Teaching assistant at Topics for Machine Learning class & Tutor at Computer Science Student Lab ### Software Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Santa Clara, CA - Designed and built vehicle diagnostic information features based on OBD-II BLE adapter for Android-based infotainment system to achieve use cases and end-to-end workflows relevant to delivering vehicle diagnostic information to Alexa Auto users; - Utilized AWS IoT Cloud to publish and subscribe diagnostic message to infotainment system client. ### Software Engineer @ BIOVIA Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Diego - Developed features enabling fast backend bulk data processing for enterprise level platform facilitating laboratory workflows using Grails framework, Groovy, Oracle SQL, Liquibase; - Conducted domain class level performance optimization; - Developed features to achieve easier workflow design, daily task assignment for Lab workers by Angular2,Typescript; - Front-end testing automation using Geb and Selenium; - Performance testing automation using JMeter and Gradle; - Built automated testing system used DevOps tools such as Jenkins. ### Co-founder, developer @ Moorgoo C-Corp Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | La Jolla, CA Co-founded a start-up company aiming at online educational business, focusing producing tutorial video for popular university coursework and a tutor sharing (C2C model) iOS app named Moorgoo Tutor. Main technical responsibilities are creating front-end for the Ruby on Rails based website and iOS app development. ### Software Developer @ Miva, Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Diego, CA Using Miva Script and Javascript develop modules for E-Commerce companies. Currently working on building a module management system using JSP. ### Software Developer @ Fundpal.org Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater San Diego Area Built a PHP Based website using bootstrap, Twitter API, Paypal API and MySQL for helping Non-Profit Organization gather donations. Primarily work is to maintain the system and database, add features like data analysis, re-tweet to notify, etc. ### Research Assistant @ San Diego Supercomputer Center Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | La Jolla, CA Research internship for a hands-on experience using Gordon, the center’s new data-intensive supercomputer. I finished two projects during the internship: Computing Benchmarks for the Data-Intensive Systems and Benchmarking, and Evaluation of File Systems for HPC. ## Education ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Engineering UC San Diego Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Master's degree in Computer Science San José State University Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zidongjiang - Website: http://jasonzidongjiang.herokuapp.com --- Source: https://flows.cv/zidong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/zidong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22