Last updated in July 2026

Yuan Zhang

Cloud / Backend / System Engineer

Summary

System engineer with about 9 years of experience across cloud web applications, backend development, infrastructure, testing, and operations.

Hands-on with AWS, GCP, and Azure; recently building serverless platforms and backend features with AWS CDK in a Scrum team.

Experience in finance, trading companies, internal systems, and public-sector projects, covering requirements through design, implementation, testing, and operational improvement.

Experience

Infrastructure & Backend Engineer, Cloud Web Application (AWS / Serverless) -- Finance / Web services

Scrum team role combining AWS infrastructure and backend development with CDK-based environment management and external API integration.

  • Designed and implemented serverless platforms and backend features with TypeScript and AWS CDK
  • Built and evolved architectures using API Gateway, Lambda, RDS, Step Functions, SQS, CloudFormation, Route 53, CloudFront, and S3
  • Owned GitHub Actions CI/CD, external API integrations, new AWS service introductions, and operational improvements
  • Covered requirements clarification through design, implementation, testing, and maintenance in Scrum

Backend Engineer, Financial Platform Support (Azure) -- Finance

Backend and Azure platform work using Python and Shell in a finance system support project.

  • Developed backend and operations-related features with Python and Shell
  • Implemented platform capabilities with Azure Batch, Storage, Container Registry, VM, Security Center, and Monitor
  • Delivered continuous implementation, testing, and fixes in a GitLab / Jenkins workflow

Backend Engineer, Used Mobile Certification System (GCP) -- Trading company / Services

Backend developer on an agile team for a used-mobile certification system for a trading company.

  • Implemented and tested backend features in Go
  • Built cloud applications using GCP managed services
  • Delivered both enhancements and new features in an agile cadence

Developer, Internal Web Application (On-premises) -- Internal / Business systems

End-to-end frontend and backend delivery from requirements through testing for an internal system.

  • Owned requirements, basic/detailed design, implementation, and testing
  • Delivered business feature changes centered on Java / Spring Boot

Maintenance / QA, Municipal System Package Support -- Public sector

Unit/integration testing and maintenance support for a municipal business system package.

  • Executed unit and integration tests and verified post-change behavior
  • Handled maintenance work and defect investigation

Skills

  • CloudAWS, GCP, Azure
  • Languages / FrameworksTypeScript, Python, Go, Java, JavaScript, Shell, PL/SQL, VBA, Spring Boot
  • DatabasesPostgreSQL, MySQL, Oracle, MongoDB, Cloud SQL, RDS
  • DevOps / CI/CDGitHub Actions, GitLab, Jenkins, CircleCI, Docker, CloudFormation, AWS CDK
  • ToolsGit, GitHub, GoLand, VS Code, SourceTree, Redmine, ZenHub, Eclipse

Certificates

  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • Google Cloud Certified - Associate Cloud Engineer
  • Google Cloud Certified - Professional Cloud Security Engineer
  • Python 3 Engineer Certification (Basics)
  • TOEIC 710
  • Japanese-Language Proficiency Test (JLPT) N1

Education

M.A., Humanities and Social Sciences — Saitama University

Japan

  • Graduate coursework and research in Japanese and Asian studies

Certificate, Foreign Student Department — Bunkyo University

Japan

  • Japanese language and cultural studies preparing for graduate education

Strengths

  • Cloud web application development on AWS / GCP / Azure
  • Backend development with TypeScript, Python, Go, and Java
  • Infrastructure with AWS CDK / CloudFormation and CI/CD with GitHub Actions
  • End-to-end delivery in Scrum from requirements to operations
  • Stability-minded work across finance, manufacturing, trading, and public-sector systems