Summary
Kaiyi Zhang is a Technical Staff engineer with 11 years of software experience, currently driving infra and coding efforts at Moonshot AI after multiple roles on Microsoft's AI Platform. A self-taught front-end developer with a strong interest in information visualization and HCI, Kaiyi combines research-minded curiosity (including a visiting scholar stint at the University of Konstanz) with production-grade engineering across Cloud+AI and media streaming domains. Their background spans internships at ByteDance, Hulu, and Disney Streaming, where they focused on data visualization and media engineering, giving them a rare blend of design sensitivity and large-scale systems experience. Kaiyi is comfortable experimenting with new technologies to solve real-world problems and showcases projects at kaiyi.cool. Based in Beijing and educated at Shandong University (BSc/MSc in Computer Science), they bring both academic rigor and hands-on product delivery to visualization and AI infrastructure challenges. An understated strength is their ability to bridge front-end UX thinking with backend platform demands, making complex data approachable.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shandong University