Peilun Zhang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPeilun Zhang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building and scaling production AI systems, currently at Google after serving as CTO of a startup focused on domain-adapted LLMs, knowledge graphs, agentic code generation, and VLM-based video understanding. He shipped generative AI features in Google Workspace used by hundreds of millions, including contextual formula generation, AI Smart Fill, and ML-driven chart and tool recommendations. Comfortable across model research, fine-tuning, and product engineering, he turns complex enterprise workflows and domain knowledge into robust, deployable AI. With an MS in Computer Science from NYU and a B.S. in Astronomy, he brings a rare blend of scientific curiosity and product-focused engineering, often bridging video-based physical-world understanding with language-centric models.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at New York UniversityBachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Astronomy at Nanjing University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (21)
mse10
playback10
vod10
drm9
video-player9
player9
video-streaming9
live-streaming8
unet-image-segmentation8
html5-audio8
javascript8
offline-mode8
eme7
science5
machine-learning4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
devops-foxtrot-s17/inventory
Feb 2017 - May 2017
Contributions:74 PRs, 75 pushes, 87 branches in 2 months
inventorywarehouse
plzhang/plzhang.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2018
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch, 4 issues in 3 years 5 months
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