Summary
Jiawei Zhu is a Software Development Engineer II with nine years of experience building large-scale web and security platforms, currently contributing to AWS Security. He is fluent in Java, JavaScript/React, SQL and Node.js, and is actively expanding into Go and distributed systems—skills he applied to event recommendation services, social network backends, and DBMS/ETL work on Hadoop. At Navis he combined frontend Domain-Driven Design and WebSocket-driven control-room APIs with CI-integrated visual testing, showing a practical blend of architecture and delivery focus. His academic background in computational science and civil engineering informs a data-driven approach to engineering problems, from ML model work to traffic-alert Android apps. Known for shipping pragmatic solutions across the full stack, he brings both hands-on coding and system-level thinking to security and infrastructure challenges. Based in Herndon, VA, he pairs steady production experience at AWS with a penchant for learning low-level system design and distributed architectures.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Civil Engineering Civil Engineering, Master of Civil Engineering Civil Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology
School of Engineering; Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree Structural, School of Engineering; Bachelor of Civil Engineering Degree Structural at Purdue University
Chinese, English