Andy Zhang

I'm a software engineer studying computer science at the University of Toronto. I work on backend systems and machine learning, previously at Amazon Web Services, Genesys, and ParaMathics Lab.

Experience

Amazon Web Services
Jun – Aug 2026

Software Engineer Intern

S3 Table Buckets.
Genesys
May – Dec 2025

Software Engineer Intern

Workforce Management.
ParaMathics Lab
Jan – Apr 2025

Machine Learning Researcher

LLM knowledge distillation.

Projects

Key-Value Store
Rust

Log-structured storage engine with streaming compaction.
Sentiment Stock Prediction
Python

Forecasts stock moves from financial news, beating zero-shot Llama 3.1.
Virtual Memory Simulator
C

Multi-level page tables, demand paging, and Clock and 2Q page replacement.
Thread Library
C

Preemptive user-space threads with mutexes and condition variables.

Skills

Languages: Python, Rust, Go, C, C++, TypeScript, Java, SQL
ML: PyTorch, Triton, Hugging Face, scikit-learn, pandas
Backend: FastAPI, Node.js, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Docker, AWS, GCP
Frontend: React, Redux, Vue.js