John Z
Head Of Engineering at Markable AI
Greater Seattle Area United States
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Top SchoolJohn Z is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience driving large-scale AI, data and platform initiatives across startups and global tech companies. Currently Head of Engineering at Regie.ai, he has a track record of scaling teams and systems—most recently expanding engineering orgs and building GAI platforms that accelerated development by up to 80%. His prior roles include architecting Coupang’s cross-region AI+Data platform and leading Ads R&D at Weibo where his teams grew revenue from $400M to $1.5B through large-scale ML and streaming systems. A hands-on technologist who enjoys Haskell, he has repeatedly delivered migrations and platform transformations that saved millions and thousands of engineering-years of effort. Equally comfortable founding startups and leading M&A integrations, he blends entrepreneurial grit with deep systems and AI engineering expertise. Based in the Greater Seattle Area, he pairs strategic vision with an appetite for practical, performance-driven engineering.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Arizona State UniversityMaster's degree, Master's degree at Nanjing University
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (124)
proton10
expressions10
yad10
wine10
tinker10
paradigms10
vimperator10
steam10
steamworks10
compatibility10
file-manager10
console-application10
wrapper10
kernel-module10
dbus10
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
machinedgod/helda
Jan 2018 - May 2020
Contributions:19 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
machinedgod/vis-ultisnips
Dec 2020 - Dec 2021
Contributions:14 commits, 24 pushes, 4 branches in 11 months
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