Bo Zhu
Technical Lead at Meta
Waterloo, Ontario, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolBo Zhu is a technical lead with 13 years of experience building secure, user-focused systems across Google and Meta, currently shaping Meta Accounts and identity experiences at Oculus. He led Google's global identity and end-to-end encryption efforts—delivering on-device Chrome Sync encryption, Android backup E2E, password-less sign-in, and “unphishable” account protections—combining policy, ML-driven defenses, and cryptographic engineering. Comfortable spanning system design, authentication, and applied cryptography, he pairs hands-on implementation with product-minded leadership. An open-source contributor, he has also built tooling to help users bypass regional access restrictions (e.g., a Chrome extension supporting custom proxies and multi-service video access), reflecting a practical privacy-and-access ethic. Trained in electrical and computer engineering at Tsinghua, SJTU, and Waterloo, he blends rigorous academic grounding with large-scale production security experience.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering, PhD, Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of WaterlooBEng, Electrical Engineering, BEng, Electrical Engineering at Tsinghua UniversityMSci, Computer Science, MSci, Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (8)
http-header10
javascript10
chrome-plugin10
chrome-extension10
chrome-app10
browser-extension10
css7
html7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
uku/Unblock-Youku
Aug 2012 - Jul 2022
A Chrome extension helping users access their web services while traveling outside mainland China
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:363 commits, 83 PRs, 274 pushes in 10 years
Contributions summary:Bo primarily contributed to the development of the Chrome extension, focusing on enhancing its functionality for unblocking web services in mainland China. Their work involved modifying the extension's configuration and header files to support additional video services like cntv and fix various issues with accessing other sites. They also worked on setting up and testing the proxy functionality and backend servers for redirecting traffic. The user also made changes to the UI and added support for custom proxy servers.
travelingmainland-chinaweb-serviceschromeoutside
uku/uku.github.io
Feb 2016 - Jul 2019
Unblock Youku 官方网站
Contributions:29 commits, 29 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 5 months
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