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Jie Zheng

Jie Zheng

Software Engineer
Kansas City,United States

Summary

As an experienced Full-Stack Developer with a strong background in networking and software engineering, I have worked on highly scaled networking systems that process billions of network requests per second and optimized DNS resolutions for AWS Lambda Networking. I have a proven track record in building products using AWS and full-stack development, as well as troubleshooting customer production issues during on-call rotations. I have mentored multiple new team members in onboarding and on-call rotations and have demonstrated ownership in projects from proof of concept to production.

Overview

5
5
years of professional experience
4
4
years of post-secondary education
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
Seattle, WA
04.2022 - Current
  • Designed and implemented the migration of a networking software pipeline with native AWS solutions, resulting in cost savings, 100% improvement in software delivery, and enabled future integration for data analytics
  • Reduced DNS resolution failure rate by 73% for non-VPC functions and 82% for VPC functions, resulting in improved performance for billions of DNS queries per second
  • Designed canary alarming software for networking feature testing
  • Helped customers recover from production pain by providing root cause analysis and mitigation for their networking issues through packet analysis in complex lambda multi-tenant networking environment
  • Mentored and guided 2 new team members through onboarding, on-call rotation, and software delivery processes, resulting in accelerated integration into the team and improved overall productivity

Software Engineer

Netsmart Technologies, Inc
Overland Park, KS
04.2020 - 02.2022
  • Designed and Implemented UI and Backend services using React and Golang to decouple an existing legacy Java application
  • Troubleshoot numerous bugs from legacy apps and refactored codes with best coding practices
  • Successfully supported application production issues during on-call rotation.

Java Application Developer

Kansa State University
Manhattan, KS
05.2018 - 02.2020
  • Hands-on experience with Test Driven Development (TDD), build tools (Maven, Vagrant, IntelliJ, JRebel & Sonar), HTML/CSS, agile development strategies (Kanban) and eXtreme Programming (XP), team/culture building, daily commitments, daily standup, analytics, and good command of Java ecosystem (e.g Spring MVC, WildFly)
  • Develop an automated tool to delegate daily IT support tasks utilizing AWS Lambda
  • Responsible for the creation and implementation of several Web-based applications using JavaScript, MySQL, and AJAX

Application Development Intern

Bluecross Blueshield Of Kansas
Topeka, KS
05.2019 - 08.2019
  • Developed an analytic feature in Java for API health checks, which is used by an existing application to shorten debugging time during critical maintenance
  • Collaborated with the team in migrating an existing Java application to use microservices
  • Completed summer intern project from requirements gathering with clients to production deployment, utilizing a full Agile development life cycle.

Education

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Kansas State University
Manhattan, KS
08.2015 - 12.2019

Certification

AWS Practitioner

Timeline

Software Development Engineer

Amazon
04.2022 - Current

Software Engineer

Netsmart Technologies, Inc
04.2020 - 02.2022

AWS Practitioner

11-2019

Application Development Intern

Bluecross Blueshield Of Kansas
05.2019 - 08.2019

Java Application Developer

Kansa State University
05.2018 - 02.2020

Bachelor of Science - Computer Science

Kansas State University
08.2015 - 12.2019
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