Yuqing Zhang

About Yuqing Zhang

I’m a software engineer at Amazon building large-scale distributed systems that power product safety and compliance services across Amazon’s global catalog.My work focuses on backend platform engineering, including workflow orchestration, data infrastructure, and AI-driven systems.I primarily work with AWS (Lambda, ECS, DynamoDB, Step Functions) to build scalable micro-services and AI-enabled backend platforms.

Experience

1. Software Development Engineer

   Amazon

   Jun 2019 — Present · Seattle, WA, US

   Build distributed backend systems powering Amazon’s compliance and safety services, which detect product risks and enforce safety controls across Amazon’s global catalog.Key contributions• Designed and built distributed workflow orchestration systems coordinating complex compliance control launches across multiple internal services.• Developed backend infrastructure using AWS Lambda, ECS, Step Functions, DynamoDB, and SQS to manage workflow execution and service integrations.• Built artifact storage and lineage services using Amazon S3, DynamoDB, and Neptune to manage artifacts, metadata, and dependency relationships.• Contributed to an AI-driven risk assessment platform that generates safety policies and rationale using LLM-based workflows.• Developed services supporting customer-facing recall systems, enabling customers to view recall notices and safety remediation instructions.

Education

• UMN Carlson School of Management

  Master of Science - MS

  2018 — 2019