Lei Zhang
CEO at Stardust AI
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Zhang is a founder and CEO with 12 years of experience building AI-driven products and data platforms from San Francisco. As founder of Stardust AI and previously Chief Scientist/CEO at DasInfo, he combines hands-on ML engineering, data engineering and data science with executive leadership. His early career in finance and risk roles at AIG and PineBridge and data work at the World Bank ground his product decisions in real-world, high-stakes analytics. An active engineer, he has contributed to open-source projects like MagicalRecord—adding background-safe Core Data save semantics and unit tests—demonstrating attention to robustness and maintainability. Lei holds an M.S. from The George Washington University and a B.Eng. from Zhejiang University, and is known for translating complex models into production-ready systems.
12 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
M.S, M.S at The George Washington UniversityBachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (4)
coredata10
unit-testing10
objective-c10
ios9
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
magicalpanda/MagicalRecord
Sep 2014 - Dec 2014
Super Awesome Easy Fetching for Core Data!
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Lei primarily contributed to the `magicalrecord` project by implementing and updating Core Data functionalities. Their work involved adding a `ChainSave` method, which creates child contexts for background saving, ensuring changes propagate correctly. Furthermore, the user wrote unit tests to validate the `ChainSave` feature, focusing on testing the persistence of data across contexts. In addition, the user refactored and updated existing method names, demonstrating a focus on code maintainability.
fetchingcore-data
callzhang/Shareability
Oct 2014 - Mar 2015
Contributions:79 commits, 4 pushes, 3 comments in 5 months
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