hiya, i’m cassandra
currently a senior @ carnegie mellon studying information systems with an additional major in computer science
in general, i’m interested in building software that keeps people safe & brings people together
experience
software engineer intern @ persona [june-august 2025]
shipped authentication controls for enterprise customers with flexible security needs through daily deployments to prod. integrated SAML/IdP systems with password flows and added admin tools for granular security control.
software engineer intern @ roche [may-august 2024]
migrated main build pipelines from jenkins to github actions, cutting build times by ~40%. set up platform-wide notification system on AWS EKS with kustomize & test internal tooling for scaffolding S3 buckets.
work
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PEFT for Federated Instruction Tuning with Homogeneous and Heterogeneous LoRA [Hao-yung Weng, Wang Rao, Cassandra Zhou]
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Ohio Army National Guard Hacking a Recruiting Challenge (Press) [C. Zhou, O. Van Zandt, L. Wu, D. Patel]
communities
- ex-head of content @ cmu scottylabs, tartanhacks organizer (circa 2022-2025)
- consultant @ carnegie mellon 180 degrees consulting
- eagle scout @ boy scouts of america, SVMBC T2468 (circa 2021)