Summary
Lin Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer in Mountain View with nine years building large-scale, production-critical systems across ads, AI infrastructure, and perception. They led design and implementation of resource ranking and management services at Meta that orchestrate 300k+ training machines and serve thousands of daily users, and now apply that systems expertise to perception scenarios at Aurora. Lin’s background spans core infrastructure at Google Ads and media/UX engineering at Microsoft, giving a rare combination of high-performance backend design and product-facing feature delivery. Skilled at defining SLIs, improving reliability, and leading cross-functional teams, they balance architecture thinking with hands-on coding. Lin’s work consistently focuses on making complex distributed systems predictable and controllable for customers and operators. A pragmatic engineer who lives “Stay Hungry Stay Foolish,” they bring both scale-minded rigor and curiosity to thorny technical problems.
9 years of coding experience
Exchange Student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Exchange Student, Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Electrical Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Master of Science, Machine Learning, Master of Science, Machine Learning at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese