Zhijing Wu
Columbia M.S. Computer Science student graduating December 2026
- Handle
- @zhijing-y4fq
- Role
- Cloud Solution Architect Intern
- Company
- Microsoft
- Location
- New York, NY
- Languages
- English, Mandarin Chinese
- Open to
- new-grad software engineering, data engineering, and applied ML roles that offer H-1B visa sponsorship
About
Columbia M.S. Computer Science student graduating December 2026, job searching for US new-grad software engineering, data engineering, and applied ML roles that offer H-1B visa sponsorship
Experience
- Cloud Solution Architect Intern at Microsoft
May 2026 to Aug 2026 - Shenzhen, CN
- Engineered and deployed a customer-facing video-surveillance POC using Python, FastAPI, REST APIs, and JavaScript, combining computer vision for cross-frame person identification with multimodal LLM reasoning for event report generation. - Built a quality-aware identity pipeline combining BoT-SORT multi-object tracking, ArcFace face recognition, OSNet REID, and multi-shot FAISS retrieval to re-identify people across blurred, occluded, and fragmented tracks and generate structured event timelines and alerts. - Designed semantic event windowing and keyframe selection, packaging keyframes with identity, trajectory, OCR, object, and spatial evidence into multimodal prompts for Azure OpenAI to perform cross-frame reasoning. - Automated Docker and Azure Container Registry builds and Azure T4 GPU VM releases through GitHub Actions, using OIDC, managed-identity image pulls, health-gated deployment, and automatic rollback. - System Maintenance and Data Intern at iFLYTEK
Jul 2023 to Sep 2023 - Hefei, CN
- Built a Python/Pandas ETL pipeline to standardize 12,000+ health-insurance records, automating schema normalization, format conversion, and data-quality validation to achieve a 98% validation pass rate. - Designed a ClickHouse OLAP schema and materialized views to pre-aggregate market-share and premium-trend metrics for recurring competitor analysis. - Wrote analytical SQL using window and array functions to generate competitor, pricing, and premium insights used in two insurance product iterations. - Data Intern at People's Insurance Company of China
Jun 2022 to Sep 2022 - Hefei, China
- Managed insurance follow-up, customer warranty data collection with Pandas, and insurance coverage analysis. - Optimized vehicle insurance inquiry using Python scripting and Pandas, reducing processing time from half hour to 5 minutes and handling 500+ records per batch.
Education
- Columbia University
M.S., Computer Science
2025 to 2026 - University of Birmingham & Jinan University (dual degree program)
B.Sc., First Class Honours, Applied Mathematics
2021 to 2025
Skills
- software systems
- data infrastructure
- applied machine learning
- Python
- C++
- Java
- SQL
- JavaScript
- Azure
- GCP
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Kafka
- PostgreSQL
- MySQL
- Redis
- ClickHouse
- REST APIs
- CI/CD
- Git
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