Carleton Zhao
Software Development Engineer at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCarleton Zhao is a Software Development Engineer based in Seattle with 11 years of hands-on experience building performant systems across backend, mobile, and research contexts. At Amazon he applies production-grade engineering practices learned from internships and research roles, including C++ optimizations at Siemens and React Native performance work that improved page load by 66%. His academic research at UC Irvine involved implementing and comparing multiple tabular Q-learning variants and experimenting with imitation learning, demonstrating a practical bridge between ML research and production code. He has leadership experience from co-presiding over a university robotics club and a track record of saving engineering time through automation and tool-building. Known for improving runtime by orders of magnitude and for creating reproducible training environments on AWS spot instances, he blends systems thinking with a researcher’s curiosity.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at Granada Hills CharterUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (7)
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javascript2
robotics2
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robot2
marine1
multi-agent-reinforcement-learning1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
Tons-of-Carls/Tons-of-Carls.github.io
Oct 2015 - Sep 2016
Contributions:177 pushes, 6 branches, 1 issue in 10 months
carletonz/web
Sep 2016 - Feb 2020
Contributions:30 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 6 months
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