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Michael Yang

mryang3108@gmail.com · linkedin.com/in/michaelyang0

Education

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Aug 2023 – May 2027

B.S. Computer Engineering 3.65 GPA

Coursework: Data Structures, Algorithms, Operating Systems, Artificial Intelligence, Applied Machine Learning, Data Mining, Database Systems, Computer Networks, Distributed Systems, Computer Architecture

Experience

AmazonMay – Aug 2026

Software Development Engineering InternSan Diego, CA

Created an Amazon Neptune knowledge graph recommendation system with over 750 million entities connecting 10M customers, 4,096 sparse-autoencoder generated behavioral personas, and a four-level Semantic-ID hierarchy
Built 11 REST endpoints using API Gateway and Lambda with parameterized openCypher queries, achieving 56 ms p50 and 138 ms p95 latency, while adding server-side batching to reduce response times by 82%
Designed a weekly blue/green batch rebuild using Cradle, SageMaker Processing, Step Functions, Lambda, and Neptune; implemented the processing pipeline and SigV4 snapshot/reset/bulk-load/validation control plane
Made an RQ-VAE's machine-learned product groupings interpretable by supplying purchase-weighted taxonomy data and ASIN details for a Bedrock agent to label behavioral subcategories with 100% coverage
Wrapped graph endpoint tools and chained prompt workflows into an MCP server for natural-language queries

AmazonMay – Aug 2025

Software Development Engineering InternSan Diego, CA

Built a scalable CI/CD pipeline to automate batch vector embedding generation for 100M-parameter Foundational Behavioral Model training, reducing runtime by 35% and compute costs by 10% while maintaining 99.5% accuracy
Developed a serverless ML workflow with AWS Lambda, Step Functions, S3, and SageMaker, enabling Applied Scientists to analyze payment fraud and backfill datasets across 150M+ daily customer orders, views, and searches
Optimized real-time TrafficStream Dataset queries by 15% through distributed customer group hashing in PySpark
Helped integrate an internal agent using Strands with custom case retrieval and order lookup tools to enhance context-aware reasoning in a fraud investigation assistant prototype, while also creating evaluation metrics

Fahnestock Research GroupJan 2024 – Present

Undergraduate Research AssistantChampaign, IL

Architected an MCP server integrating a vector database and tool-calling endpoints, enabling AI agents to automate simulation execution, extract seismic data, and retrieve domain protocols
Engineered an ML inference pipeline integrating external Geolocation REST APIs, XGBoost models, and a randomized greedy optimizer to design multi-objective steel structures, achieving >90% validation accuracy
Awarded Illinois Scholars Undergraduate Research Scholarship (1 of 20), selected for the PURE program (1 of 40), and won Best Audience Choice Award at the Undergraduate Research Symposium among 100+ projects

MH3D Inc.May – Aug 2024

Software Engineering InternCommerce Township, MI

Developed a .NET C# WinForms application with C++/CLI interop for real-time SPECT detector control
Deployed a MySQL user database on AWS RDS with IAM authentication for secure and scalable access control
Moved 3D reconstruction processing to AWS EC2 compute-optimized instances, reducing reconstruction time by 25%

Projects

vault! - iOS Time Capsule AppMay 2024 – May 2025

Architected SwiftUI client using MVVM state management and built a real-time camera capture and filter pipeline with AVFoundation; integrated MapKit-based location tagging and geographic post discovery
Optimized Firestore-backed content retrieval with lazy pagination, batched reads, and client-side caching, reducing network overhead and enabling smooth infinite scrolling

Skills

Languages: C, C#, C++, Python, Java, SQL, JavaScript, TypeScript, Swift, RISC-V Assembly

Frameworks: React, Node.js, Flask, .NET Framework, Pandas, NumPy, OpenSeesPy, PySpark

Cloud & Tools: Git, Docker, AWS (S3, EC2, ECS/Fargate, RDS, Lambda, SageMaker, SNS/SQS, Step Functions)

Certifications: AWS Certified AI Practitioner, AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner

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