Qi Zhao
Head Of Growth at Bytedance Inc.
Chaoyang District, Beijing, China
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Top SchoolQi Zhao is a growth and product leader with 18 years of engineering and entrepreneurial experience, currently leading Growth at ByteDance from Beijing. He progressed from software and product roles at Douban and Wandou Labs to co-CEO of mobility startup Chelaile before joining ByteDance in 2017, blending hands-on technical rigor with business strategy. Trained as a Ph.D. in Computer Science at Peking University and with early research and internship stints at IBM CRL, he brings deep systems and cloud-platform understanding to user acquisition and retention challenges. Qi is comfortable operating at the intersection of product, data and engineering—scaling products while keeping a developer’s attention to API and integration details. His career shows a pattern of taking technical ownership in startup contexts and then applying that mindset to drive growth at a global consumer tech company. Colleagues would note his rare combination of academic depth, operator experience, and a knack for translating platform-level engineering into measurable user growth.
18 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D, Computer Science, Ph.D, Computer Science at Peking University
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
syntax-highlighting6
javascript6
api3
ajax3
Github contributions (5)
sakinijino/douban-collection-explorer
Jul 2008 - Nov 2010
Contributions:4 commits in 2 years 4 months
apiairajax
sakinijino/imashup
Nov 2007 - Nov 2011
Contributions:32 commits in 4 years 1 month
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