David Zhang
Software Engineer at Base Power Company
Bellevue, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Zhang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building 0→1 products and scalable platforms, most recently at Base Power Company after a multi-year tenure as an engineering lead at Meta. He helped launch and scale core features across Facebook and Instagram—ranging from curation and Reels growth to Ads Dynamic Creative and embedding-based retrieval for Search—bringing ML models into production at scale. David combines hands-on backend and systems work with product-minded leadership, having co-founded a trading startup that delivered measurable backtested gains and built microservices at Citrix. Passionate about climate and carbon removal, he completed the Climatebase fellowship to pivot technical expertise toward clean energy production. Based in Bellevue with a CS degree from the University of Michigan, he’s equally comfortable designing distributed systems and iterating fast on data-driven product experiments. An understated strength is his track record of taking research-grade ML ideas into robust, production-grade platforms.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at University of MichiganGithub contributions (5)
zhangst23/my-demo
Mar 2015 - Apr 2024
Contributions:9 pushes in 9 years 2 months
zhangst23/my-tutorial
Oct 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:114 commits, 106 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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