Harry Zhao
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
Berkeley, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHarry Zhao is a Member of Technical Staff and AI/ML engineer based in Berkeley with nine years of experience building production ML systems and backend infrastructure. He has moved between research and product roles—from ML interpretability and text-to-SQL research at Berkeley AI Research to founding-engineer responsibilities at a Sequoia-backed startup and machine learning engineering at Pinterest. His background spans quantitative trading, backend systems at Verkada, and teaching advanced ML courses, giving him a rare blend of rigorous academic grounding and hands-on production shipping. At OpenAI and prior startups he repeatedly takes on "do what needs to be done" roles, signaling a pragmatic, impact-focused approach to ambiguous problems. He holds both BS (High Honors) and MS degrees in EECS from UC Berkeley and is comfortable bridging research, infrastructure, and product. An understated strength is his ability to translate cutting-edge research into scalable backend systems used in real-world applications.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Newmarket High School
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
javascript9
open-source9
django8
bootstrap8
css7
nlp6
python6
python-bot3
bots2
pyautogui2
selenium-webdriver2
jquery-plugin2
jquery2
bing2
tooltip1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zhaohanson1/higher-or-lower
Jan 2020 - Mar 2024
PyQt5 game
Contributions:6 PRs, 7 pushes, 8 branches in 4 years 2 months
pygamepythonpyqt5
zhaohanson1/project_euler_plus
Apr 2021 - May 2024
Solutions to HackerRank's Project Euler+
Contributions:2 PRs, 164 pushes, 5 branches in 3 years
project-eulerproject-euler-plus
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