Ji Zhu
AI ML Engineering Lead at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolJi Zhu is an AI/ML engineering lead with 10+ years building large-scale, product-facing machine learning and media infrastructure for Google, YouTube, and Meta. He led foundational, 0-to-1 efforts—helping turn Google Cloud Vision into a billion-call service and founding YouTube Shorts' media creation platform that drove millions of daily creator uploads. Ji blends deep research pedigree (PhD-level training in ECE) with hands-on systems design across multimodal embeddings, ML ranking, content compliance, and high-throughput data pipelines. He’s comfortable navigating legal/privacy constraints while shipping user-facing features like media browse, search, and music rights infrastructure. Based in the Bay Area, he’s known for turning complex technical and policy challenges into scalable product primitives that differentiate major consumer platforms.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor, Control, A, Bachelor, Control, A at Tsinghua University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (8)
client-library9
google-cloud-platform8
google-cloud-run8
python8
google-cloud8
appengine7
gcp7
google7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
zinjiggle/google-product-search-simple-ui
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:7 commits, 5 pushes in 8 months
zinjiggle/blogs
May 2017 - Jun 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 3 years 1 month
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