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I am Chen Zhang, a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems for music streaming and search at Amazon Music and beyond. I specialize in modern frontend architectures, React ecosystems, and data-driven product experiences that work across web and mobile. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining CI/CD practices, and delivering accessible, responsive interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems with a mix of frontend, backend, and ML-powered features that boost user engagement and product reliability.…I am Chen Zhang, a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems for music streaming and search at Amazon Music and beyond. I specialize in modern frontend architectures, React ecosystems, and data-driven product experiences that work across web and mobile. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining CI/CD practices, and delivering accessible, responsive interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems with a mix of frontend, backend, and ML-powered features that boost user engagement and product reliability.

Chen Zhang

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I am Chen Zhang, a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems for music streaming and search at Amazon Music and beyond. I specialize in modern frontend architectures, React ecosystems, and data-driven product experiences that work across web and mobile. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining CI/CD practices, and delivering accessible, responsive interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems with a mix of frontend, backend, and ML-powered features that boost user engagement and product reliability.…I am Chen Zhang, a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems for music streaming and search at Amazon Music and beyond. I specialize in modern frontend architectures, React ecosystems, and data-driven product experiences that work across web and mobile. I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining CI/CD practices, and delivering accessible, responsive interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems with a mix of frontend, backend, and ML-powered features that boost user engagement and product reliability.

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I am Chen Zhang, a senior software engineer with a track record of building scalable, high-performance systems for music streaming and search at Amazon Music and beyond. I specialize in modern frontend architectures, React ecosystems, and data-driven product experiences that work across web and mobile.

I enjoy mentoring teammates, refining CI/CD practices, and delivering accessible, responsive interfaces. I thrive on solving complex problems with a mix of frontend, backend, and ML-powered features that boost user engagement and product reliability.

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Work Experience

Software Engineer at Quixey

April 1, 2017 - April 1, 2017

Built the User Interest Finder platform, developing the search classifier component with React, Redux, Node.js, Django, and Elasticsearch, improving query intent accuracy by ~20% and serving millions of daily queries across verticals. Designed the Chinese Analyzer Service with Python and Django REST Framework, creating a tokenizer that reduced processing time by ~30% and improved relevance for millions of Chinese-language searches. Built interactive dashboards with React and Redux to visualize query trends, enabling data-driven product decisions. Optimized backend APIs with Django and PostgreSQL, introducing caching and query tuning that reduced average response times by ~25% and increased system throughput by ~2x. Adopted modern frontend practices to boost developer productivity, reduce build times, and improve the overall developer experience.

Senior Software Engineer at Amazon Music

April 1, 2017 - October 27, 2025

Modernized and scaled Amazon Music's search platform; introduced ML-driven personalization via internal APIs to boost user engagement and longer listening sessions; delivered secure, scalable APIs with Node.js, FastAPI, and AWS Lambda Gateway; built cross-platform music discovery experiences with React Native across iOS, Android, and Web; improved cross-device retention; established CI/CD and testing best practices; achieved test coverage over 80%; mentored junior engineers and led knowledge-sharing sessions.

Software Engineer at Quixey

April 1, 2015 - October 27, 2025

Built the User Interest Finder platform, developing the search classification component with React, Redux, Node.js, Django, and Elasticsearch, improving query intent accuracy by ~20% and serving millions of daily queries across verticals. Designed and implemented the Chinese Analyzer Service with Python and Django REST Framework, creating a tokenizer that reduced processing time by ~30% and improved relevance for millions of Chinese-language searches. Built interactive dashboards with React and Redux to visualize query intent trends and search behavior, enabling product managers to make faster, data-driven decisions. Optimized backend APIs with Django and PostgreSQL, introducing caching and query tuning that reduced average response times by ~25%, adopting modern front-end practices that improved developer productivity and reduced build times.

Software Engineer

April 1, 2015 - October 27, 2025

Built the User Interest Finder platform; developed search classifier with React, Redux, Node.js, Django, and Elasticsearch; improved query intent accuracy by ~20% and served millions of daily queries across verticals. Implemented Chinese Analyzer Service in Python/Django REST Framework, creating a tokenizer that reduced processing time by ~30% and improved search relevance for millions of Chinese-language queries. Created interactive dashboards with React/Redux to visualize query intent trends; optimized backend APIs with Django and PostgreSQL, adding caching and query tuning to cut average response times by ~25% and increase throughput by ~2x. Adopted modern frontend practices to boost developer productivity and cut build times.