Da Zhao
Lead TPM - US Tech Services at TikTok
Fremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDa Zhao is a Lead Technical Program Manager with 10+ years driving infrastructure, security, and compliance initiatives at scale across companies like TikTok and Meta. He combines hands-on cloud development and architectural insight with program-level delivery—designing automation, CI/CD improvements, and capacity solutions that measurably improve performance and reduce downtime. Notable wins include cutting build times from 110 to 50 minutes, reclaiming regional capacity from 50% to 90%, and leading a cross-border data center migration, all while aligning multi-team stakeholders. Based in Fremont, CA, he pairs an electrical engineering background and an MS in engineering management with a pragmatic knack for turning complex technical debt into repeatable, auditable processes.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
MS Engineering Management, MS Engineering Management at SJSUBachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of California, Riverside
Chinese, English
Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
ChinaMassClouds/copenstack-iso
Dec 2015 - Jun 2017
Contributions:10 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 6 months
ChinaMassClouds/copenstack-client
Dec 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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