Chao Zhong
Founder at Stealth Startup
Redmond, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolChao Zhong is a founder and AI practitioner with over a decade of experience building production-grade machine learning systems for startups and global enterprises. He specializes in designing AI agents, semantic search, and multimodal embeddings powered by LLMs and vector databases, and currently leads a stealth startup delivering products across video intelligence, talent matching, clinical trial discovery, and patent search. Previously he led Risk Data Science at Wish and held senior data science roles at Intuit, Snap, and Microsoft, where he delivered low-latency risk models, customer lifetime value and demand forecasting innovations. His background blends rigorous quantitative training (PhD-level mathematics work and a MS in Financial Engineering) with hands-on engineering across real-time ML pipelines and embedding architectures. Notably, his startups emphasize deep relevance and semantic UX—turning complex multimodal signals into concise, actionable summaries for users. He combines research-grade methods with product-first thinking to move prototypes into scalable, user-focused AI services.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Candidate Mathematics, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Candidate Mathematics at Michigan Technological UniversityMaster's degree Financial Engineering, Master's degree Financial Engineering at Fox School of Business at Temple UniversityBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Beijing University of Aeronautics & Astronautics
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (12)
azure10
swagger10
api10
rest10
cli10
azure-cli10
openapi9
rest-api9
microsoft-azure7
microsoft7
azure-functions5
vue1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
xin541322049/Client
Nov 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:291 PRs, 169 pushes, 25 branches in 1 month
17789889316/Client
Dec 2016 - Jan 2017
Contributions:1 PR, 47 pushes in 11 days
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