Summary
Jerry Sun is a seasoned backend and API engineer with 12 years of experience building growth, SEO, and content-distribution systems for consumer-facing platforms in San Francisco. He’s held impactful roles at Pinterest and Notion—leading backend design, international ads and template marketplace efforts—and most recently works on ChatGPT growth at OpenAI. Jerry has a track record of driving measurable product metrics (tripling organic traffic and growing video sessions from zero to 10K/day) by combining infrastructure, data pipelines, and product-facing features. He pairs a Carnegie Mellon master’s background in very large information systems with hands-on experience in traffic management, recommendation services, and tagging/taxonomy systems. Pragmatic and cross-functional, he often leads zero-downtime migrations and XFN efforts that translate technical work into clear business outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor Computer Software Engineering at Fudan University
Jinling High School
Master's Degree Very Large Information System, Master's Degree Very Large Information System at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese