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David Zhu

@davidzhu

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Senior software engineer specializing in cloud-native, AI-enabled systems across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

United States

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What I'm looking for

I seek roles building cloud-native, AI-enabled systems with strong engineering practices, cross-cloud deployments, and opportunities to drive product impact and automation.

I am a results-driven senior software engineer with over nine years of experience designing and delivering scalable, cloud-native applications across AWS, GCP, and Azure.

I build high-performance systems using Python, Node.js, TypeScript, FastAPI, and React, and I have hands-on experience with containerized deployments, Kubernetes, Terraform, and CI/CD automation.

I have introduced AI-powered automation workflows, integrated GPT/LLM solutions and vector search (Qdrant, PostgreSQL, MongoDB), and led initiatives that reduced release times by 40% and improved throughput by up to 30%.

I partner with product and data teams to align technical solutions with business and regulatory needs, focusing on healthcare, compliance, and automation domains to deliver measurable operational impact.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

Senior Software Engineer

Current

Hyperproof

May 2024 - Present (1 year 6 months)

Architected cloud-hosted SaaS systems across GCP, AWS and Azure, designed REST APIs and modular services for compliance automation, and automated deployments to reduce release times by 40% while introducing AI workflows that improved throughput by 30%.

Python TypeScript GCP AWS Azure Kubernetes Docker GitHub Actions REST APIs

Software Engineer

Anduril Industries

Apr 2022 - Nov 2023 (1 year 7 months)

Built full-stack features with React, Node.js and PostgreSQL on GCP, improved application performance by 20% through query optimization and caching, and contributed to containerization and monitoring efforts to ensure uptime.

React Node PostgreSQL GCP Performance Optimization Caching Monitoring Docker Kubernetes

Software Engineer

Hyperproof

Apr 2021 - Apr 2022 (1 year)

Developed real-time data pipelines and microservices using Python and Node.js on Kubernetes, co-designed observability dashboards, and improved data throughput by 25% through API and query optimizations.

Python Node Kubernetes Grafana Data Pipelines Observability RAG

Software Engineer

Amazon Web Services

Apr 2020 - Mar 2021 (11 months)

Built Python and Node.js microservices for internal tooling, automated CI/CD and infrastructure with Terraform and CloudFormation, and supported migrations to serverless architectures for improved scalability and multi-region resilience.

Python Node Terraform CloudFormation AWS Lambda S3 RDS CI CD Serverless

Software Engineer

Vistaprint

Jul 2015 - Jan 2020 (4 years 6 months)

Built and maintained high-traffic e-commerce applications with React and .NET, refactored SQL and indexing to reduce reporting runtimes by 50% and supported migration from monolith to containerized microservices.