pedrito maynard-zhang: a sketch (a little dated)
professional
i am a senior software development engineer in aws ai labs at
amazon.com. before my current time at amazon,
i was an sde at microsoft in the bing local search group. before that,
i developed software at amazon.com
in the customer behavior group. prior to developing software, i taught
as an assistant professor in the department of computer science
& systems analysis at miami
university in oxford, ohio. (nope, no affiliation to that
other miami.) however, as much as i loved teaching there, it
was just too far from the west coast and family. so here we are, back
in the wonderful pacific northwest. fortunately, i've enjoyed great opportunities
to teach courses at seattle university and amazon's machine learning university.
i received my phd in
computer science in 2001 from the department of computer science
at stanford university (and
picked up a masters of science in computer science along the way). i
did my bachelors in electrical engineering at walla walla university (then walla
walla college), a liberal arts university in southeastern
washington state.
my general technical area of expertise is artificial
intelligence with an emphasis on data science, machine learning, multi-agent systems,
knowledge representation and reasoning, and machine learning.
for more information, see my:
personal
i was born in michigan, usa. my parents are jamaican immigrants, so i am an
abj. i've lived in jamaica, puerto rico, the people's republic of
china, and the states of michigan, washington, california, and ohio
here in the usa. i currently live in sammamish, washington, a satellite
city of seattle. my wife margaret and i have two children, jazz and
leo. i practice and teach traditional chinese martial arts; i practice
chang quan (northern longfist) and pi gua zhang under master adam hsu of
the adam hsu kung fu school, and
moh kempo and pai hu shih under master robert jones of the academy of kempo martial
arts. i also love traveling; i have visited israel, sweden,
norway, italy, japan, france, mexico, canada, and others in addition to the
countries i've lived in. i also passionately enjoy an eclectic variety
of music (from tori amos to plumb, reba mcentire to yo-yo ma, prince to metallica, and i amplify
kexp), stories (books,
movies, plays, you name it), food from around the world, stimulating
conversations, hiking/backpacking, and riding my motorcycle.
