Software Developer Engineer

BRANDON ZHU

*************@*****.*** https://www.linkedin.com/in/brandon-zhu/ 571-***-****

EDUCATION

• Relevant Coursework: Data Structures & Algorithms, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Computer Networks, Discrete Math

University of Virginia, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA May 2025 Bachelor of Arts in Computer Science

EXPERIENCE

• Automated Active Directory data retrieval with .NET and SQL Server, saving 15+ hours of admin work weekly

• Established a RabbitMQ based notification system for job status alerts, facilitating asynchronous email delivery and decreasing latency by 40%

• Improved sprint delivery, completing 5+ more stories per sprint by driving daily Scrum meetings and resolving blockers collaboratively

• Constructed an LLM-powered documentation system with FAISS and Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG), improving factual accuracy across technical documents by 65% Software Developer Intern, Federal Reserve Board, Washington, DC June 2025 - Present

• Deployed Docker containerized applications on HPC Slurm clusters, managing 5+ containerized services for mission-critical modeling operations

• Built a database ingestion tool with PostgreSQL to power an on-demand Earth System data viewer, handling 100+ new forecast entries daily

• Developed a React SPA data viewer, boosting user engagement by 15% through real-time visualization of satellite and atmospheric observational data for weather modeling

• Automated API unit tests with Github Actions for JCSDA releases, reducing testing time by 3+ hours per release cycle Software Engineer, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD November 2023 - June 2025

• Launched a biotech e-commerce platform leveraging Angular and Django on AWS EC2, enabling seamless IaaS operations and supporting sale of 200+ genomic and proteomic products

• Automated infrastructure provisioning with Terraform, cutting down deployment time by 50%

• Established a Django-Shopify order system to automate quote-to-order processing, cutting manual effort by 60% across 50+ monthly orders

• Boosted product discovery through precise semantic search by over 44% by integrating Elasticsearch with NLP models Full-Stack Engineer, Bioark Technologies, Rockville, MD April 2024 - Present

• Programming Languages: Python, Java, C#, SQL, C, C++, TypeScript, JavaScript

• Web Development: ASP.NET, Angular, Django, React, FastAPI, Flask, HTML/CSS

• Database Systems: PostgreSQL, MySQL, AWS RDS, Microsoft SQL Server, MongoDB, Elasticsearch

• Tools: Git, Linux, AWS, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes, Terraform, RabbitMQ, PyTorch, PyTorch, Numpy TECHNICAL SKILLS

PROJECTS

• Built an Ahead of Time compiler using C++ and LLVM compiler infrastructure

• Utilized the Visitor pattern for constructing Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) with 20+ AST node implementations, representing expressions and statements in personal toy language

• Implemented compiler optimizations such as LICM and SCCP, decreasing execution time overhead by over 59% C++, LLVM, SIPC Compiler, https://github.com/brandonzhu09/sipc

• Developed a lightweight Flask REST API and React app using Amadeus GDS API, delivering real-time travel booking data with 96% accuracy across all major airlines and travel agencies

• Created a trip itinerary AI agent based on the Traveling Salesman problem to reduce travel times by 25% Flask, React, Travel Booking Service, github.com/brandonzhu09/Darting-Around

• Trained a Bernoulli Naive Bayes classifier to analyze Twitter content for mental health indicators

• Applied n-gram feature extraction to analyze 12000+ word relationships with log scaling, optimizing feature quality and classifier performance metrics with an F1 score of 0.85 Python, Twitter Sentiment Analysis, github.com/brandonzhu09/Naive-Bayes-Classifier

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