Ningyuan Zhang
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Snap Inc.
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolNingyuan Zhang is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer with eight years of experience designing and shipping large-scale recommendation, retrieval, and ranking systems across Snap, Microsoft, and SAP. A Stanford MS graduate with deep expertise in ML/DT pipelines, PySpark, SQL, and end-to-end LLM and model deployment, he has driven personalization for high-throughput products like Game Lens and search ads. His background spans applied research in financial time-series and AutoML at PAII, production forecasting and entity resolution at SAP, and award-winning data science competitions. Beyond engineering, he coached technical communication at Stanford, reflecting a rare blend of technical depth and clarity in presenting complex ideas. An active collaborator open to Kaggle and ML-for-finance projects, he pairs rigorous academic training with pragmatic product focus.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Bachelor of Science - BS at Sun Yat-sen UniversityMaster of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignMaster of Science - MS, Master of Science - MS at Stanford University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (48)
bioinformatics9
flask8
modeling8
sklearn8
finance8
factor8
plotly7
jupyter7
sentiment7
react7
python7
gui-framework6
julia6
sentiment-analysis6
client-go6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
Sinba7/CS230-Final-Project-Arbitrary-Style-Transfer
Jun 2018 - Apr 2020
Contributions:77 commits, 70 pushes in 1 year 10 months
rohinishimpatwar/The-NLP-News-Sentiment-Trading-Strategy
Apr 2020 - Apr 2020
The NLP News Sentiment Factor Trading Strategy for a Portfolio of S&P 500 Stocks
Contributions:50 commits, 6 PRs, 41 pushes in 1 day
nlptrading-strategynews-sentimentfactorstrategy
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