BZ
Career profile
Bill Zhang
OpenAI, xAWS | 15+ yrs Scaling Distributed Systems, AI Infrastructure, LLM Inference & Vector Databases
Greater Seattle Area, United States
Career path.
OpenAIMember of Technical Staff
Jan 2026 - Present- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sr. Research Engineer | AWS Agentic AI Science
May 2024 - Feb 2026 - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sr. Research Engineer | AWS Computer Vision Science
Dec 2023 - Apr 2024 - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Sr. SDE | AWS Computer Vision
Oct 2018 - Nov 2023 - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SDE | Amazon Rekognition
Nov 2016 - Oct 2018 - Amazon Web Services (AWS)
SDE | Amazon ECS
Mar 2015 - Nov 2016 - Amazon
SDE | Amazon Local
Aug 2011 - Mar 2015 - University of Waterloo
Student
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011 - Amazon.com
Software Development Engineering Intern
Jan 2010 - Dec 2010 - Symantec
Linux C++ Developer
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008 - Pason Systems
Web Application Developer Intern
Sep 2008 - Dec 2008 - Pason Systems
Web Application Developer Intern
Jan 2008 - Apr 2008 - OpenText
Quality Assurance Developer Inter
May 2007 - Aug 2007