Summary
Du Zhang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance recommendation and advertising systems across top-tier tech firms. He has driven improvements in CTR/CVR/LTR modeling, feature engineering, and ads infrastructure at TikTok and now focuses on Stories ranking at Instagram within Meta. His background spans production ML, data pipelines, and full-stack engineering from roles at Google Assistant and Uber to research in knowledge representation at Southeast University. Du combines research rigor from a CMU MS with hands-on delivery of scalable training and inference pipelines that directly improved ad delivery and business metrics. Known for leading cross-functional RD teams, he blends technical leadership with product impact and a knack for turning complex models into robust, deployable systems. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings both academic depth in embeddings and practical experience shipping at internet scale.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Information Engineering at Southeast University
Master of Science - MS Information Networking Computer Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Networking Computer Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese