Jiantao Wu
Senior Software Engineering Manager at Google
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolJiantao Wu is a senior software engineering manager with 15 years of experience building production AI/ML systems across Meta, Airbnb, Yelp, Hyperscience, and now Google, specializing in recommendations, ads, trust & safety, and document understanding. He combines deep technical roots (PhD in Bioinformatics) with product-focused leadership, having led teams that deployed BERT/ResNet-based content integrity systems, attention-based ranking for ads, and LLM-driven virtual agents. Jiantao excels at modernizing ML infrastructure—migrating cloud pipelines, upgrading models to advanced DNNs, and streamlining development workflows to accelerate iteration and business impact. He has a track record of driving measurable growth and revenue uplift while also improving user safety (e.g., Instagram election integrity and anti-bullying efforts). Based in San Francisco, he’s equally comfortable leading cross-functional teams and diving into model architecture and system design, bringing a rare blend of research rigor and scalable engineering.
15 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biotechnology, 3.3, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Biotechnology, 3.3 at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 4.0, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 4.0 at Boston CollegeMaster of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology, 3.7, Master of Science (M.S.), Biotechnology, 3.7 at University of California, Irvine
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (4)
jiantao/Tangram
Aug 2012 - Feb 2015
Contributions:64 commits, 3 pushes, 5 comments in 2 years 6 months
jiantao/model_explainability
Apr 2022 - Apr 2022
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
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