Lisa Zhao

Systems Design Engineering Student

About Me

👋 Hi, I'm Lisa! I am a rising senior Systems Design Engineering student at the University of Waterloo. I am currently working as a Software Engineer Intern at Google, where I am developing code generators to convert between C++ entities and protobufs. Seeking internships for 2026!

Experience

Software Engineer Intern

Google

Aug 2025 - Present

Developing code generators and type conversion tools to map SQL schemas into C++.

Kotlin

SQL

C++

GCP

Site Reliability Engineer Intern

NVIDIA

May 2025 - Aug 2025

Building observability pipelines to monitor Apache Spark clusters on Kubernetes.

Kubernetes

Apache Spark

Fluent Bit/Fluentd

Linux

Software Engineer Intern

HubSpot

Jan 2024 - Apr 2024

Managing user assets on HubSpot's CRM.

Java

AWS

Spring Boot

Apache Kafka

Software Engineer Intern

Amazon Web Services

Jun 2023 - Sep 2023

Building maps for Amazon Location Service.

Golang

Lambda

AWS IAM

JavaScript

React.js

Frontend Engineer Intern

View the Space

Sep 2022 - Dec 2022

Creating React components for View the Space's tenant-management platform.

React

TypeScript

GraphQL

Jest

React Testing Library