Amanda Zhu

Software Engineer Group Lead - Australian BioCommons, Sydney Informatics Hub

Australia

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Experience

  • Software Engineer Group Lead at University of Sydney
    Feb 2025 - Present · 1 yr 6 mos

    Provide strategic leadership and contribute to software engineering initiatives that strengthen Australia’s national life science research software infrastructure. Lead agile teams in delivering secure, scalable cloud platforms, integrating AI-driven tools to accelerate research workflows with federated authentication.

  • Woven by Toyota (Permanent · 5 yrs)
    • Software Engineer
      Oct 2022 - Dec 2024 · 2 yrs 3 mos

      Go-to technical expert for Toyota’s automotive application validation platform. Key role in core functionality development with cross functional international agile teams, including virtualization of in-vehicle systems, seamless CI/CD integration for Test Driven Development, and core usability improvement through direct user engagement.

    • Engineering Manager
      Sep 2021 - Sep 2022 · 1 yr 1 mo

      Recruit, manage and lead an agile, multicultural, globally distributed software engineering team. This team continuously and regularly delivered a simulation software platform used for Software-in-the-Loop testing and validation of Toyota production Advanced Driving functionalities (Toyota Safety Sense 4th generation) Direct cross-team software engineering collaboration with Toyota and subsidiary companies (DENSO etc.) for simulation-based testing and verification needs.

    • Software Engineer
      Jan 2020 - Sep 2021 · 1 yr 9 mos

      Responsible for delivering a ROS2 based simulation software solution for Software-in-the-Loop testing and evaluation of Toyota’s highway autonomous driving functionalities, integrated with a vendor autonomous simulation product.

  • Software Engineer at Toyota Research Institute
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2019 · 1 yr 3 mos

    Development of an internal scenario-based simulation software platform used by TRI’s autonomous driving function (planner and controller) development teams for functional safety evaluation.

  • Software Engineer at Toyota Research Institute
    Jun 2018 - Aug 2018 · 3 mos

  • Software Engineer at Intuitive
    May 2017 - Aug 2017 · 4 mos