About

William Zhang is a Software Engineer at Amazon, where he works as a Backend Engineer driving ML solutions to deliver the best prices for Amazon Fresh Groceries. He has over 2 years of relevant experience in the field of computer science and has worked with a variety of technologies and tools. Previously, William worked at News Break, where he was a Software Engineer. He led the team to build and maintain their template-based auto content generation system and designed the back-end API in Python for their in-app trending event page. He also helped build their internal journalist studio that has a collection of tools to empower writers' work. William has experience coordinating with front-end, mobile, design, and editorial teams to launch features successfully. Before that, William worked as a Back End Intern at Particle Media, Inc. During his time there, he processed data in Java Kafka through asynchronous operations and used at-most-once delivery and aggregation strategy to improve notification quality. He also constructed, tested, and published a weather report feature for their Alexa skill, Local Bot, in Java, and wrote a Twitter bot in Python that automatically posts breaking news with tags of relevant city names, aiming to increase brand awareness. William holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science from the University of California, Berkeley, which he completed in 2019. He has experience working with a variety of technologies, including XGBoost, ML, Deep Learning, Python, Search, Mobile, Frontend, BERT, Word2Vec, MapReduce, Java, Hadoop, and Kafka. In summary, William is a skilled Software Engineer with experience in Back End development, ML, and Deep Learning. He has a proven track record of successfully coordinating with cross-functional teams to launch features and is always eager to learn and work with new technologies.