Canzhen Zhou

Canzhen (Jojo) Zhou is a Platform Engineer currently working at MongoDB, focusing on Atlas Search since June 2025. Prior to this role, Canzhen served as a Senior Software Engineer - Platform at Turo, where optimizations in client-side search using Elasticsearch significantly improved query response times, and a Terraform-based AWS resource bootstrapping system reduced microservice provisioning time. As a Senior Software Engineer - Full Stack at Shift, Canzhen led a team in transitioning from a monolithic to a service-oriented architecture and developed machine-learning infrastructure for external integration. Early career experience includes internships at Baidu Inc., where Canzhen enhanced internal search capabilities and developed an AI-driven chatbot, and at Peking University Software Engineering Center, where website deployment was completed using Laravel and Apache. Academic credentials include a Master of Science in Computer Science and Engineering from UC San Diego and a Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering from Beijing Jiaotong University, alongside time as an exchange student at EPITA.