Chong Zhang is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience across systems and platform roles at OpenAI, Apple, and Google, currently contributing to safety research at OpenAI. His background spans Chrome system architecture and input systems, CoreOS power engineering, and full-stack game engineering, reflecting deep systems-level intuition and cross-stack fluency. A former ACM competitor who is still learning C++, he’s driven by low-level challenges and dreams of building an operating system—an uncommon blend of research-facing safety work and systems craftsmanship. Based in San Francisco, Chong holds advanced CS training from UCLA and international undergraduate degrees, bringing both rigorous academic grounding and practical production experience to complex, high-stakes engineering problems.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Computer Science at Zhejiang University
University of California, Los Angeles
Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS) Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
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