Summary
Hesen Zhang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience, currently contributing to Gemini embedding infrastructure and evaluation at Google DeepMind and serving on the core Gemini encoder team. He has a strong background in LLM retrieval and ranking, Chrome on Android, and networks infrastructure (TCP/IP, HTTP/HTTPS, proxies), and is a recognized Chromium committer. His work spans full-stack development, search quality and serving, and earlier telecom systems at Affirmed Networks, with hands-on robotics and self-driving car training from USC and Udacity. Based in Zurich, he blends production-grade systems engineering with research-oriented problem solving, and brings a rare combination of low-level networking expertise, large-scale ML infra experience, and practical robotics/path-planning know-how.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science, Master of Science (MSc) Computer Science at University of Southern California
Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BEng) Electrical and Electronics Engineering at University of Liverpool
Self-Driving Car Nanodegree, Self-Driving Car Nanodegree at Udacity
English, Chinese