Lei Mao
Engineering Manager at Tencent
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Mao is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, real-time backend infrastructure in C++ on Linux, now based in New York. He has led distributed systems for instant messaging, market data and advertising at Bloomberg, FactSet, Weibo, and Tencent, owning model inference, training pipelines and AI platform integration for ad recommendation. Comfortable shifting between hands-on systems work and people leadership, he bridges low-latency C++ engineering with emerging deep learning deployment needs. A Columbia MS in Electrical Engineering with exchange experience at TUM, he combines rigorous academic foundations with production-grade reliability. Notable for moving from core messaging systems to end-to-end ML serving in ads, he brings a pragmatic mix of performance optimization and ML operationalization.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Hangzhou Xuejun High SchoolExchange Program Information and Electronics, Exchange Program Information and Electronics at Technical University of MunichMaster of Science Electrical Engineering, Master of Science Electrical Engineering at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering Electrical Engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (69)
go-framework10
prometheus-exporter10
scheduling10
opentelemetry10
apollo10
monitoring10
modular10
configmap10
golang10
high-performance10
graphing10
database10
kubernetes10
connect10
opentracing10
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mojo-zd/config
Aug 2016 - Sep 2024
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 8 years 2 months
flourish-ship/docs
Jul 2016 - Aug 2021
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 2 months
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