Minwei Gu
Global Head Of Product, Music at ByteDance
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolMinwei Gu is a music-focused product and engineering leader with 13 years of experience building recommendation, personalization and music-distribution products at ByteDance, Tencent Music and Spotify. He combines deep technical chops—led recommender and audio-feature pipelines at Spotify and built intelligent traffic delivery systems at QQ Music—with product leadership as Global Head of Product for Bytedance Music. His work drove major engagement gains (personalization penetration from 7% to >30% and doubling time spent) and enables promotion of songs to audiences at billion-scale. Trained in Music Technology (Georgia Tech) and with early research on robotic music interaction, he uniquely blends audio signal processing, ML and creative music applications. Based in New York, he moved from teaching students to “teaching machines,” applying empathy for creators and listeners to scale discovery and creator growth.
13 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Music Technology, Master's Degree Music Technology at Georgia Institute of TechnologyBachelor of Science (B.S.) Communication Science and Engineering, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Communication Science and Engineering at Fudan University
Shanghainese, English, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
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Github contributions (5)
torogmw/violin-technique-recognition
Feb 2014 - Feb 2014
Contributions:15 commits in 12 days
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