Hi, I’m Michael Zhu, a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering scalable backend systems and cloud-native platforms. I design reliable, high-performance services and AI-enabled workflows, collaborating across teams to ship production-grade software. I specialize in Python, distributed systems, API design, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, and data-driven engineering, with a focus on scalability, observability, and software quality in SaaS and AI environments.

Michael Zhu

Hi, I’m Michael Zhu, a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering scalable backend systems and cloud-native platforms. I design reliable, high-performance services and AI-enabled workflows, collaborating across teams to ship production-grade software. I specialize in Python, distributed systems, API design, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, and data-driven engineering, with a focus on scalability, observability, and software quality in SaaS and AI environments.

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Hi, I’m Michael Zhu, a Senior Software Engineer with 8 years of experience delivering scalable backend systems and cloud-native platforms. I design reliable, high-performance services and AI-enabled workflows, collaborating across teams to ship production-grade software.

I specialize in Python, distributed systems, API design, Kubernetes, AWS, PostgreSQL, and data-driven engineering, with a focus on scalability, observability, and software quality in SaaS and AI environments.

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Language

English
Fluent

Work Experience

Senior AI / Systems Engineer at Alluxii
July 1, 2023 - Present
Architected agentic AI frameworks and autonomous workflows using LangChain, LangGraph, and tool-calling orchestration, enabling multi-step reasoning and API-driven task execution. Designed and deployed production-grade RAG pipelines using FAISS, Pinecone, and pgvector, improving retrieval accuracy by 40%. Built scalable data pipelines (Python/SQL) to ingest and process high-volume real-time data, improving data freshness and reliability by 35%. Developed LLM-powered automation systems (summarization, semantic search, decisioning), reducing manual workload by 55%. Provisioned and managed cloud infrastructure on GCP and AWS using Terraform (IaC), Docker, and Kubernetes, ensuring high availability and low latency. Implemented automated AI evaluation frameworks using LangSmith and custom eval pipelines to measure accuracy, grounding, and hallucination rates. Built secure enterprise-grade systems with RBAC, encryption, and tokenization, ensuring compliance (HIPAA, PCI DSS). Optimized micros

Education

Master of Science at University of Utah
January 11, 2017 - April 23, 2018
Bachelor of Science in Applied Mathematics at University of Utah
January 11, 2030 - January 1, 2017

Qualifications

SOA Exam P
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026
First Aid and AED Certified
January 11, 2030 - May 28, 2026

Industry Experience

Software & Internet, Computers & Electronics, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment, Healthcare, Financial Services, Education