About Me

I’m a software engineer with a Bachelor of Engineering (Honours) in Software Engineering from UNSW Sydney. I design and deliver cloud-native products end-to-end, running workloads on AWS (Lambda, ECS, S3) provisioned with Terraform and deployed through GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines. I have also led hands-on LLM fine-tuning experience for UNSW’s AI Conversational Simulation Project.

Contact me at: Zzn021 Zeneng Zhao or email

  • Education
    Education

    • UNSW, Bachelor of Engineering (Hons)

      Feb. 2021 - May. 2025
    • All Saints Anglican School

      2017 - 2020

      ATAR: 95.7

  • Projects
    Projects

    • AI Conversation Simulation

      Research Thesis Project

      • Researched and benchmarked AI conversation models to elevate user engagement inside a virtual-reality setting.

      • Built an immersive VR demo that marries ChatGPT with Unity, scripting the experience in C#.

      • Curated and pre-processed a custom dialogue dataset to fine-tune the model, improving response coherence and user engagement.

    • Data Analytics and Event Intelligence Application

      Delivery Manager

      • Designed a modular, scalable service architecture that makes new features easy to integrate and deploy across multiple platforms.

      • Turned business and technical requirements into clear development tasks, uncovering system-level improvements along the way.

      • Built and managed real-time and batch data pipelines, delivering accurate, up-to-the-minute data for analytics and decision-making.

      • Introduced Infrastructure-as-Code, automating cloud setup and maintenance to ensure consistent environments and eliminate manual errors.

    • E-Invoicing Application

      Team learder

      • Designed and built a full-stack invoicing application with Python and React.

      • Ran the project in Agile sprints with Jira, breaking work into small, trackable deliverables and keeping the team on schedule and on spec.

      • Served as both Team Lead and Product Owner, steering the product from concept through AWS deployment and coordinating development, testing, and DevOps efforts.

      • Short-listed for the SENG2021 Macquarie Prize.

  • Employment
    Employment

    • Oriental Electronic, China

      Dec. 2024 - Mar 2025

      Intern

      • Automated multi-node log analysis with Python scripts, extracting key performance metrics and generating visual timelines that reduced incident-diagnosis time by 30 %.

      • Optimized SQL queries and data-model logic for internal monitoring dashboards, improving real-time metric accuracy and usability for operations and support teams.

      • Reviewed and tested system-module code across design and diagnostics teams; identified redundant patterns, validated edge cases, and documented findings on git to support cleaner releases and smoother cross-team collaboration.

    • Airport Services, China Southern Airlines, Sydney

      Feb. 2024 - Apr 2024

      Intern

      • Analyzed flight-delay datasets in Python, uncovering patterns that informed strategies to reduce disruptions and improve the passenger experience.

      • Expanded responsibilities to include tech-focused tasks, using specialized software to manage customer complaints and track real-time airport operations.

  • Honours
    Honours

    • The Australian Computational and Linguistics Olympiad

      2020

      Gold Award

  • Skills
    Skills

    • Programming Languages

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    • Databases

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    • Frontend

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    • Frameworks

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    • Project Management

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    • Other Tools

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  • Languages
    Languages

    • English: ●●●●●

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