Hongzheng Shi
Context Engineer at Instagram
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolHongzheng Shi is a Context Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput ML and data systems across major Bay Area tech companies. He has driven recommendation and ads-ranking models at Meta, led video recommendations as an engineering manager, and now focuses on context and token-efficient systems at Instagram. Previously he developed real-time, GPU-backed time-series databases and pricing/incentive systems at Uber and worked on search federation and ranking at Yahoo, giving him deep expertise across ML, real-time analytics, and large-scale engineering. Trained with an MS in Computer Science from NYU and a BS in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he blends low-level detail orientation ("down to the bits") with product-minded impact on business metrics. Notably, his background spans both model development and production infrastructure, enabling end-to-end delivery from research to revenue.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Electrical and Electronics Engineering at Donghua UniversityMaster of Science (MS), Computer Science, Master of Science (MS), Computer Science at New York University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (35)
web-application10
python10
machine-learning10
numpy10
design-patterns10
deep-learning10
gpu10
webapp10
cgo10
anki9
large-scale9
docker9
gpu-programming9
storage9
acceleration9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
shz117/Leetcode
Jan 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:26 pushes in 2 years 6 months
shz117/pytorch
Jun 2020 - Jul 2020
Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration
Contributions:4 pushes, 2 branches in 1 month
pythongpu-accelerationdeep-learninggpuacceleration
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