Summary
Lei Zuo is a Senior Software Engineer with eight years of experience building large-scale ML infrastructure, currently focused on VLM infrastructure at ByteDance in Bellevue. He progressed from ML systems intern to senior engineer working across LLM and VLM platforms, blending research experience from Columbia University with hands-on production engineering. Lei’s mission is to bring social good through technology, which informs his work on reliable, scalable model-serving and training pipelines. He has a strong academic foundation—MS in Computer Science from Columbia and a BE from The University of Hong Kong—augmented by practical stints at UC Davis and Berkeley programs. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic and research-savvy, able to translate academic advances into production-ready systems. Outside core responsibilities, he’s driven by immediacy and impact, reflected in a concise Github presence summed up as “Now!” that signals a bias for action.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange (UCEAP), Computer Science, Exchange (UCEAP), Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Summer Session, Computer Science, Summer Session, Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New York
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)
English, Chinese