Sydney Zheng

U.S. Citizen | https://zheng.sydney | [email protected]

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Stripe | Software Engineer | February 2022 – now

Created methodology to safely validate HADR posture of our incident mitigation tooling in production. Owned hardening the HADR posture of our most essential developer tooling.
Drove the delivery of a key part of an internal observability migration to save $30 million / year and improve reliability of observability infrastructure by >10x.

Facebook | Production Engineer Intern | Summer 2020

Automated a resource migration to save an estimated $1.5 million for Marketplace.

IBM Watson Research Center | Back-end Developer Intern | Summer 2019

Developed the Deep Learning as a Service (DLaaS) product, in use by core services such as Watson Assistant.

Decisive Analytics Corporation | Machine Learning Intern | Summer 2018

Researched reinforcement learning and behavior-extraction algorithms for two key DARPA-funded projects.

Netrias LLC | Junior Data Scientist | November 2016 – May 2017

Developed program to research the impact of diseases such as alcohol addiction on gene-activation.

EDUCATION

Carnegie Mellon University | Graduated May 2021

B.S. in Computer Science, Concentration in Computer Systems, School of Computer Science Honors, University Honors, Dean’s List

(15-410) Operating Systems, (15-411) Compilers, (15-440) Distributed Systems, (15-418) Parallel Architecture and Programming, (15-451) Algorithms, (17-377) AI Methods for Social Good, (10-315) Machine Learning

PROJECTS

Prediction of Fire Severity in the Peatlands | ProjectX Competition | paper

2^nd place against top international CS/AI colleges in the Weather and Natural Disaster Prediction category of the ProjectX competition.
Managed a team of six students from CMU to apply machine learning to peatland fire prediction.

Menix Operating System

Created a fully-functioning kernel with multi-threading, virtual memory, exception, and I/O capabilities.
Debugged using GNU Debugger, tested on a virtual machine, used C with object-oriented programming, and worked with Intel’s x86 specification.

Immersing in the Sphere World

Conceived and proposed an innovative project of “turning a human into a sphere in a sphere world”.
Awarded CMU SURG/Crosswalk and FRFAF funds and presented work at CMU’s Meeting of the Minds conference. Led and recruited 12 students to test the system on a weekly basis over a semester.
Used Unity, C#, and Google Daydream VR for the virtual reality aspect and Bluetooth, Arduino, accelerometer, and a Zorb ball with hand-built harness for the physical computing aspect.

SKILLS

Project Management/Planning, User Research, Data Analysis, UI/UX, Bash, Python, JavaScript/TypeScript, React, Ruby, Golang, Linux, OpenBSD, Git