Luke Zhang

AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional | Software Engineer

l_zhang18@hotmail.com Toronto LinkedIn GitHub

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Education & Certifications

Work Experience

Software Engineer (Contract) Athena AI

Toronto, ON | July 2025 – Sep 2025

  • Integrated the AthenaAI chatbot with Google Chat, enabling support for rich message types (images, etc).
  • Configured Google Cloud Platform (GCP) services (organization setup, IAM roles, service accounts, Oauth2).
  • Strengthened cloud security by applying least-privilege IAM policies and JSON key–based authentication flows.

Software Engineer Meraki IT Group

Toronto, ON | Jan 2023 – Aug 2024

  • Delivered government AGLC licensing platform (aglc.ca) in 12 months as the sole developer under a tech lead.
  • Designed and built backend (MSSQL, Oracle, JavaScript, AMANDA) while aligning with government compliance.
  • Translated complex regulatory business rules with 3 CGI BSAs into automated validations.

Software Engineer Telus

Toronto, ON | 2020 - 2023

  • Developed a Spring Boot microservice for enterprise role retrieval serving 100K+ employees.
  • Integrated IAM tools (SAML, OAuth2/OIDC, LDAP) with PingFederate for secure cloud authentication.
  • Executed AWS → GCP migration of IAM services (including PingFederate stack) with zero downtime, ensuring hybrid LDAP connectivity.
  • Automated CI/CD pipelines in Jenkins, enabling staged rollouts across AWS environments.
  • Enhanced operational stability by using Splunk dashboards to actively monitor and analyze overnight traffic and key security metrics, enabling rapid identification of performance dips or anomalous activity.
  • Created terraform to deploy Kong API gateway for use across cloud platforms (AWS, GCP).

Software Engineer Surge ERP

Toronto, ON | 2019 - 2020

  • Engineered Django backend on AWS ECS + Docker with GraphQL and RDS MySQL to support sale of thousands of Ethereum assets. Configured AWS compute (EC2, Lambda) and optimized costs, reducing AWS spend by 25%.
  • Integrated mobile apps with backend (C#, NodeJS) for Cryptomibs.io, increasing accessibility by 60% and driving traffic/sales.
  • Designed CI/CD workflows for containerized services to accelerate feature deployment.

Trader Select Vantage

Toronto, ON | 2015 - 2017

  • Transitioned from trader to developer by self-teaching C# and R to automate and backtest trading strategies.
  • Automated order execution by sending UDP trade requests to back office systems.
  • Applied statistical analysis in R to identify and implement profitable trade setups.
  • Sparked long-term career in software development through hands-on problem solving in high-pressure environments.