Summary
Henry Zhou is a senior engineering manager at YouTube with 11+ years in leadership and over 15 years in digital media and streaming video, known for combining hands-on architecture with large-scale program delivery. He built and led cross-cultural engineering teams that shipped WebKit-based embedded browsers, HTML5 TV UIs, and graphics stacks optimized for set-top boxes at scale, integrating services like YouTube and Netflix. Henry champions open standards and open-source approaches, having architected custom JS frameworks and driven hardware-accelerated rendering on diverse SoCs. He is SAFe-certified and experienced as Product Owner and Scrum Master, equally comfortable in technical design and customer-facing program management. Based in San Francisco with a UC Berkeley EECS background, he has a track record of shrinking regression cycles via CI and scaling teams across the Bay Area and Beijing. An uncommon strength is his deep blend of embedded graphics expertise and modern web platform mastery, enabling rich TV experiences across millions of deployed devices.
11 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), EE and Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), EE and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English, Chinese, Chinese