I am an entrepreneurial and results-oriented Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building and deploying scalable solutions. I am driven by critical thinking and a passion for tackling complex challenges, combining advanced programming skills with expertise in AI, machine learning, and cloud platforms. Throughout my career, I've led the design and delivery of production-grade AI and ML solutions, developed frontend and backend systems, and deployed optimized models on edge devices. I excel at collaborating across teams and mentoring to achieve impactful engineering outcomes in various sectors including Non-Profit, Software & Internet, and Media & Entertainment.

Sheng ‘Peter’ Zhang

I am an entrepreneurial and results-oriented Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building and deploying scalable solutions. I am driven by critical thinking and a passion for tackling complex challenges, combining advanced programming skills with expertise in AI, machine learning, and cloud platforms. Throughout my career, I've led the design and delivery of production-grade AI and ML solutions, developed frontend and backend systems, and deployed optimized models on edge devices. I excel at collaborating across teams and mentoring to achieve impactful engineering outcomes in various sectors including Non-Profit, Software & Internet, and Media & Entertainment.

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I am an entrepreneurial and results-oriented Software Engineer with over 8 years of experience building and deploying scalable solutions. I am driven by critical thinking and a passion for tackling complex challenges, combining advanced programming skills with expertise in AI, machine learning, and cloud platforms.

Throughout my career, I’ve led the design and delivery of production-grade AI and ML solutions, developed frontend and backend systems, and deployed optimized models on edge devices. I excel at collaborating across teams and mentoring to achieve impactful engineering outcomes in various sectors including Non-Profit, Software & Internet, and Media & Entertainment.

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Work Experience

Full Stack AI Engineer at UNHCR
August 1, 2025 - September 3, 2025
Led engineering for an internal social media monitoring product focused on refugee protection by applying transformer-based NLP to detect hate speech and xenophobic narratives. Built real-time dashboards using React and Next.js for protection teams to visualize trends and triage incidents. Developed backend APIs with Python and Django REST to manage hate incident logging and analyst annotations. Designed and deployed multilingual hate-speech classification pipelines using Hugging Face Transformers, PyTorch, and ONNX Runtime. Established model retraining and monitoring workflows to adapt to evolving narratives, ensuring detection accuracy. Implemented analytics and CRM lead enrichment flows with BigQuery and outbound APIs. Deployed the platform securely on AWS with Terraform, enforcing strict data-protection requirements.
Full Stack AI Engineer at Accenture
January 31, 2024 - September 3, 2025
Led platform engineering for Glitch, an AI-driven B2B SaaS product automating campaign creation, multi-platform orchestration, and conversion attribution for small B2B advertisers. Designed and implemented a multi-tenant backend with Python and asynchronous task orchestration. Developed responsive dashboards with React, TypeScript, and WebSocket streams for real-time telemetry. Built production connectors to Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok APIs with concurrency support. Developed an LLM-driven creative pipeline integrated with CTR and conversion scoring models. Managed CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes infrastructure with Helm and Terraform. Ensured privacy compliance and tenant isolation with observability and incident response setups.
Software Engineer at Google
January 31, 2022 - September 3, 2025
Developed an end-to-end manufacturing testing platform for Pixel devices, including Angular operator dashboards with real-time telemetry using WebSocket and Server-Sent Events. Engineered streaming data pipelines with Cloud Pub/Sub and Dataflow for preprocessing, aggregation, and analytics with BigQuery. Built Python test harnesses for firmware validation and integrated test outcomes with manufacturing MES/ERP systems. Collaborated across Pixel engineering, firmware, test automation, and QA teams to enhance manufacturing validation processes.
Frontend Engineer at Yggdrasil Gaming
July 1, 2020 - September 3, 2025
Contributed to frontend development of award-winning HTML5 slot titles using PixiJS, WebGL, and Spine animations to create visually rich and performant UIs across desktop and mobile. Engineered interactive bonus mechanics and real-time session flows with Redux-Saga and PartnerConnect APIs. Optimized performance for low-end devices through batching, tuning, and GPU acceleration. Enhanced developer experience by improving build chains, testing, and CI/CD pipelines for consistent operator deployments.
Software Engineering Consultant at BCG
February 28, 2018 - September 3, 2025
Built interactive dashboards with Angular, D3.js, and Leaflet.js for airport operational data including congestion heatmaps and gate utilization. Engineered data pipelines using Python, Apache Kafka, and PostgreSQL to aggregate flight schedules and sensor data for visualization. Implemented ETL jobs with Airflow and Redis-backed tasks to compute KPIs on passenger throughput and security bottlenecks. Integrated REST APIs for live data synchronization and leveraged Esri ArcGIS platforms for geospatial IoT data visualization. Optimized backend storage and caching for high-throughput, low-latency geospatial queries.
Software Engineer Intern at Siemens
May 1, 2017 - September 3, 2025
Assisted in building a web-based dashboard to visualize system performance metrics. Designed and executed unit and integration tests to enhance software reliability. Documented workflows to support maintainability and scalability. Supported database schema design and query optimization for backend systems handling growing data volumes.
Full Stack AI Engineer at UNHCR
August 31, 2025 - September 3, 2025
Owned engineering for an internal social-media monitoring product focused on refugee protection, applying transformer NLP models for hate speech detection and timely alerts. Built real-time monitoring dashboards using React, Next.js, and Tailwind, enabling analysts to visualize hate-speech trends and triage incidents. Developed secure backend APIs and data services supporting logging and annotations with Python and Django. Designed a multilingual hate-speech classification pipeline leveraging Hugging Face Transformers and deployed it with ONNX Runtime. Implemented CI/CD workflows and automated model retraining with MLflow, DVC, and Kubernetes. Deployed the platform securely on AWS with Terraform and enforced strict data protection standards.
Full Stack AI Engineer at Accenture
January 31, 2024 - September 3, 2025
Led core platform engineering for Glitch, a B2B SaaS AI Growth Agent automating campaign creation and attribution. Designed and implemented a multi-tenant backend platform with Python, REST APIs, Postgres persistence, and async task orchestration. Developed interactive dashboards with React and TypeScript and integrated real-time telemetry via WebSockets. Built production connectors to Google Ads, LinkedIn, Meta, and TikTok APIs with concurrent processing. Developed LLM-driven creative pipelines with staged A/B testing and scoring models. Engineered CI/CD pipelines and infrastructure-as-code with Docker, Helm, Terraform, and Kubernetes on GCP. Hardened platform privacy controls to meet GDPR and operational standards.
Software Engineer at Google
January 31, 2022 - September 3, 2025
Developed an end-to-end manufacturing testing platform for Pixel devices featuring Angular operator dashboards, microservices in Python and TypeScript, and streaming data pipelines on Google Cloud. Engineered real-time pass/fail gating and telemetry systems using Pub/Sub, Dataflow, and BigQuery, deploying on GKE and Cloud Run. Collaborated across hardware, firmware, manufacturing test automation, and QA teams to integrate MES/ERP systems and streamline production analytics.
Frontend Engineer at Yggdrasil Gaming
July 31, 2020 - September 3, 2025
Contributed to frontend development of award-winning HTML5 slot titles using TypeScript, PixiJS, and WebGL to create high-fidelity, cross-platform UIs. Engineered interactive bonus mechanics and real-time session flows integrating operator APIs. Optimized performance for 60fps on low-end devices and enhanced developer experience with CI/CD pipelines and testing frameworks.
Software Engineering Consultant at BCG
February 28, 2018 - September 3, 2025
Built interactive web dashboards for airport operations using Angular, D3.js, and Leaflet.js. Engineered data ingestion pipelines and ETL flows with Python, Kafka, and Airflow. Integrated multiple live APIs for flight and queue data and optimized geospatial backend storage for real-time analytics and low-latency queries.
Software Engineer Intern at Siemens
May 31, 2017 - September 3, 2025
Assisted in developing system performance visualization dashboards using JavaScript and Python. Designed and executed tests to improve reliability and provided knowledge transfer documentation. Supported backend database design and query optimization.

Education

MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence at University of Cambridge
January 1, 2017 - September 3, 2025
MPhil in Machine Learning and Machine Intelligence at University of Cambridge
January 1, 2017 - December 31, 2017

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Industry Experience

Non-Profit Organization, Software & Internet, Manufacturing, Gaming, Professional Services, Media & Entertainment