andy zhao
Software Engineer
USA, China
Summary
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SeniorAndy Zhao is a founding engineer and AI researcher with 12 years of experience building large generative models and advancing LLM reasoning across industry labs and stealth startups. He has held research roles at Amazon, Meta, Microsoft Research, Samsung Research, MIT CSAIL and Berkeley AI Research, blending theoretical rigor—PhD-level work in EECS and approximation algorithms—with hands-on productizing of frontier models. At startups he focuses on pushing toward AGI capabilities, while prior roles span applied satellite imagery models for the UN, recommendation and ad-bidding systems, and federated learning compression. Based in Mountain View, he combines deep math and systems training (quadruple major at UC Berkeley, MS at MIT) with a track record of shipping research-driven features in production. Notably, his background includes both academic algorithm design and practical defenses against LLM hallucination, a rare mix that accelerates reliable foundation-model deployment.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
spring10
spring-security10
java10
spring-boot10
blockchain9
persistent9
springframework9
rust8
crypto8
operating-system8
database8
cryptography8
embeddable8
helium8
miner8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zxgangandy/gid
Sep 2021 - Oct 2022
Contributions:11 releases, 65 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 1 month
zxgangandy/rocketmq-wrapper
Sep 2020 - Mar 2021
Contributions:81 commits, 88 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
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