Chi Zhang
Senior Data Scientist
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolChi Zhang is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale ads infrastructure, currently contributing to Pinterest’s Ads Serving Platform after multi-year roles at Google focused on YouTube ad serving and ads security. With an MS in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford and a BS from Shanghai Jiao Tong, Chi brings strong systems thinking rooted in a mechanical-engineering background to distributed systems and ad tech. He has experience across production ad stacks, publisher quality, and simulation platforms, combining rigorous academic problem-solving with hands-on production delivery. Based in California, Chi is a dog lover who blends practical engineering discipline with curiosity about cross-disciplinary solutions, often applying physical-systems intuition to software performance and reliability challenges.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Business Analytics, Master of Science - MS Business Analytics at Columbia EngineeringBachelor of Engineering - BE Civil Engineering & Construction Management, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Civil Engineering & Construction Management at Tsinghua UniversityBachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General, Bachelor's degree Business Administration and Management General at 清华大学经济管理学院 Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management
Chinese, English
Github Skills (14)
kernel10
linux10
linux-kernel10
python6
conda5
package-management4
deep-learning3
pytorch3
computer-vision3
ecosystem3
self-driving-car2
package-manager2
agent2
os-agnostic1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
chizhang529/cs231a
Apr 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
chizhang529/cme213
Apr 2018 - Oct 2018
Contributions:30 commits in 6 months
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