Hongbao ZHANG
Senior Software Engineer at Cryptape
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolHongbao ZHANG is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience bridging electrical engineering, machine learning, and production software. After earning advanced degrees from Carnegie Mellon and Harbin Institute of Technology, he pivoted from EE research to become a hands-on ML engineer and architect, delivering AutoML and deep learning solutions at Petuum and storage-focused recommendation systems at Pure Storage. As cofounder and CTO of String he led product and system design to automate end-to-end data workflows, democratizing analytics for small and mid-sized businesses. Now based in Sunnyvale and working at Cryptape, he blends research rigor with startup pragmatism to ship scalable systems that turn messy data into timely business insights. An uncommon strength is his depth across the full data lifecycle—from motor-design research and large-scale NLP experiments to production recommendation engines—making him adept at taking novel models into reliable deployments.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
None, EECS, None, EECS at University of California, BerkeleyBachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.88, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, 3.88 at Harbin Institute of TechnologyMaster's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, QPA 3.83, GPA 3.89, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, QPA 3.83, GPA 3.89 at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (26)
information-theory7
charts7
angular7
datagrid6
typescript6
datatable6
causal-inference5
statistics5
graph5
ui-components4
causal-discovery4
machine-learning4
causality4
component-library4
fairness-ml4
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
peterzhb/lua-signal
Apr 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:2 pushes in 1 day
tonyabracadabra/Atari-Game-with-DQN
Mar 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:73 commits, 22 pushes in 1 month
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