Zhiyu (Joe) Wang

Cell: (857) 869-4147

Email: avgjoewang@gmail.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/zhiyu-wang-joey/

Work Experience

Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe

March 2025 – Present

Adobe Firefly

  • Adobe Firefly Inference Platform Team

Software Development Engineer, AWS

April 2024 – March 2025

Amazon Translate

  • Led the upgrade of core Machine Translation inference image stack: upgraded PyTorch, CUDA, tested accuracy, and deployed to production.
  • Co-mentored an intern to explore Amazon Bedrock as a PoC for Machine Translation.
  • Co-led expansion of Amazon Translate into new AWS regions.

Amazon Bedrock

  • Owned and launched batch inference components, including batch prompt preprocessing workflows.
  • Initiated and helped build the GPU resource dashboard, centralizing provisioning metrics and enabling cost tracking via single source of truth.

Software Development Engineer, Amazon

April 2021 – April 2024

  • Built internal tools to process and present financial data for fulfillment cost planning.
  • Unified architecture to support expansion into capex, opex, and real estate workflows.
  • Optimized performance by applying parallelism and moving to serverless queries—cutting runtime from 2h to 5m.
  • Enhanced data exchange and export, reducing time from 3h to under 10m.
  • Scrum Master: drove agile rituals, improving team velocity by 50% in 6 months.

Software Engineer, Digi International

July 2019 – April 2021

  • Worked on embedded Linux-based router systems in a 10-person team.
  • Contributed to firmware features (Hotspot, Failover, GPS) and WebUIs / CLI tooling.

Education

Boston University — Boston, MA

Sep 2017 – May 2019

MSc in Electrical and Computer Engineering, Graduate with Intern Practice

GPA: 3.60

Coursework: Data Structures and Algorithms, Object-Oriented Programming, Embedded Systems, Computer Networks, Advanced Database Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Digital Image Processing

Wuhan University of Technology — Hubei, China

Sep 2013 – June 2017

BEng in Automation, Excellent Graduate Award, Top 5% of Graduates

GPA: 3.67

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