Jimmy Zhao

About

Software Engineer with experience in: Web Application Development, AI (LLM) Development Pipelines, Large-scale Web Architecture, Scalable REST APIs, Cloud Infrastructure, System Performance, Project Leading, Latency Optimizations. Java, Spring/Boot, JavaScript, Typescript, Python, Claude Code and Spec-Driven development (MD, Hooks, RAG), AWS services (CDK, CloudWatch, Dynamo, SQS, SNS)

Experience

• Amazon (Seattle, Washington, United States)
  • Software Development Engineer 2 (SDE II)
    Dec 2020 - Present · 5 yrs 8 mos

  • Software Development Engineer 1 (SDE I)
    Aug 2018 - Nov 2020 · 2 yrs 4 mos

• Software Development Intern at Amazon
  May 2017 - Aug 2017 · 4 mos

• Research Analyst and Software Project Intern at Logapps LLC
  May 2016 - Aug 2016 · 4 mos