Pengyu Zhang
Software Engineer at Facebook
Greater Houston United States
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Top SchoolPengyu Zhang is a software engineer with 12 years of industry experience, currently working at Facebook and pursuing graduate studies in Computer Science at Rice University. She brings a strong research background that spans full-stack development, databases, machine learning, and operating systems, with practical proficiency in Python, C++, Go, HTML, and SQL. Her research at Tsinghua combined RNNs and reinforcement learning to build a real-time interactive text steganography model, demonstrating both low-latency engineering and publication-grade work. Past internships at Neusoft and other firms show hands-on experience building recommendation systems, NLP pipelines, and computer-vision tooling that improved accuracy and robustness. Known for a lively, energetic approach and a passion for Chinese traditional culture, she blends technical rigor with curiosity and cross-cultural perspective. She consistently bridges academic research and production engineering to deliver performant, well-tested systems.
12 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
San José State UniversityMCS, Computer science, MCS, Computer science at Rice UniversityBachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.81/4.00, top1%, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.81/4.00, top1% at 北京工业大学Github contributions (5)
pengyuzhang/pengyuzhang.github.io
May 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 11 months
pengyuzhang/QuarkNet
Jan 2014 - May 2014
Contributions:93 commits in 3 months
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