I have more than 10 years of experience working as Backend engineer, and more than 2 years of experience build AI tools. Every single Kindle App in the world is built, tested and deployed using the service I designed and implemented.

Yongning Zhang

I have more than 10 years of experience working as Backend engineer, and more than 2 years of experience build AI tools. Every single Kindle App in the world is built, tested and deployed using the service I designed and implemented.

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I have more than 10 years of experience working as Backend engineer, and more than 2 years of experience build AI tools.

Every single Kindle App in the world is built, tested and deployed using the service I designed and implemented.

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Work Experience

Senior Software Development Engineer at Amazon
May 1, 2012 - Present
Led the design and development of RAG environments for the Kindle organization and pioneered AI agentic development, establishing best practices for hundreds of developers. Designed and built multiple backend services serving thousands of developers. Implemented CI/CD workflows based on the AWS suite, processing significant compute time annually. Coordinated cross-team projects within AWS and the CDO org. Designed, built, and managed AWS infrastructure with a multi-million dollar annual budget. Acted as security and operations readiness auditor, and developed automation and testing frameworks for E-Book readers on Android and web, including QA for Digital Content Rendering for Kindle E-Ink.
NMS Software Designer at Alcatel-Lucent
January 1, 2011 - May 1, 2012
Collaborated with Product Managers to analyze customer requirements and refine NMS software designs. Developed both manual and automated tests to exercise product functionality and improved test strategies based on real-world deployments.
Software Engineer at EION Wireless
September 1, 2010 - December 1, 2010
Developed automatic test scripts for WiMax Base Stations and Subscribers using Linux Shell programming, contributing to automated validation of network equipment.
Research Assistant at University of Waterloo
January 1, 2009 - December 1, 2010
Developed and implemented a mathematical model for analyzing the performance of 802.11-based ad hoc networks and designed a video multi-casting system for WiMax networks in collaboration with other researchers.

Education

Master in Computer Science at Concordia University
January 11, 2030 - January 13, 2026

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Software & Internet, Media & Entertainment, Professional Services