Du Zhang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolDu 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 UniversityMaster of Science - MS Information Networking Computer Systems, Master of Science - MS Information Networking Computer Systems at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Jason101616/LeetCode_Solution
Feb 2017 - May 2021
Contributions:38 commits, 96 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 2 months
Jason101616/Serial_Port
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:17 commits in 8 days
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