Summary
Dennis Zhao is a product leader with 11 years of experience blending engineering roots and product strategy across major consumer platforms, currently leading ML and AI product efforts at Meta. He has driven recommender and discovery experiences at Instagram and Twitter, led growth-focused ML teams, and founded Spirito AI to build chatbots for creators, demonstrating an entrepreneurial bent alongside large-scale product leadership. His background as an engineer and multiple early-stage co-founder roles gives him a hands-on approach to shipping complex systems and prototyping new interaction models. Based in London, he pairs technical fluency from a UC Berkeley CS background with a knack for turning research-grade ML into user-facing features, and he also shares product and tech perspectives publicly via his tweets.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Spanish