Alvin Zhang
Software Engineer at Pinterest
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlvin Zhang is a software engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with a decade of hands-on experience building data and API services, experimentation tooling, and ads reporting products at companies including Pinterest and Capital One. He pairs a strong academic foundation (BS in Statistics & CS and an MCS from UIUC) with practical work across full-stack development, API design, and data processing. His GitHub interests in imitation learning, reinforcement learning, optimization, and robotics hint at a deeper focus on ML-driven systems and mobile manipulation beyond his product-facing roles. Comfortable moving between research prototypes and production services, Alvin has a track record of shipping robust, data-informed solutions and contributing to enterprise ML interpretability and experimentation pipelines.
10 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Dual Enrollment, Dual Enrollment at Ohlone CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Mission San Jose High SchoolMaster of Computer Science, Master of Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (143)
gymnasium10
q-learning10
reinforcement-learning10
vpn9
robotics9
markov-decision-processes9
camera9
actor-critic9
deep-reinforcement-learning9
annotations9
proxy9
bypass9
machine-learning9
deep-q-network9
mujoco9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
huiwenzhang/ml-in-action
Sep 2017 - May 2019
Contributions:22 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
huiwenzhang/gym-rearrangement
May 2019 - Jul 2019
Contributions:35 commits, 2 pushes in 2 months
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