Ashley Zhao
Product Manager at Givelify
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAshley Zhao is a product manager with a decade of experience building AI-driven consumer and marketplace products, currently leading product at Givelify in Los Angeles. She has a strong Computer Science foundation from UCSD and a hands-on background shipping ML features—from image classifiers for the World Bank/Intel project to recommender systems at Change.org that increased reach and revenue. At Upwork she led Talent Marketplace and acquisition efforts, integrating advanced NLP and generative AI to personalize search, matching, and onboarding flows. Her work blends rapid experimentation, data-informed growth tactics, and production ML deployment, repeatedly driving measurable lifts in engagement, signatures, and revenue. Colleagues describe her as a pragmatic operator who pairs technical fluency with cross-functional leadership, often translating complex model outputs into clear product roadmaps. She’s comfortable switching between low-level implementation details and high-level strategy—an asset when turning ML research into user-facing impact.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San Diego
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
spark-ml7
tensorflow7
deep-learning7
scala5
machine-learning5
apache-spark5
spark4
apache4
bigdl3
big-data1
pyspark1
to-do1
javascript1
data-science1
science1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
ashizhao/BigDL-Tutorials
Aug 2017 - Jan 2018
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
leaningbigdlmachine-learningapachespark
ashizhao/ashizhao.github.io
Jun 2018 - Jun 2018
Contributions:15 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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