Qiling Zhao
Backend Engineer, TikTok Recommendation Architecture
Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolQiling Zhao is a backend engineer with eight years of experience focused on recommendation architecture, currently shaping personalized content systems at TikTok in Singapore. Previously, Qiling spent four years at Tencent building and scaling recommendation backends, progressing from an internship to full-time engineering roles. They specialize in creating scalable, efficient machine learning infrastructures that drive user engagement across high-throughput environments. Colleagues describe Qiling as pragmatic and data-driven, with a knack for translating research ideas into production-ready services. A Qingdao University software engineering graduate, they blend strong engineering fundamentals with hands-on experience in large consumer-facing platforms.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor, Software Engineering, Bachelor, Software Engineering at Qingdao University
Chinese, English
Github Skills (19)
search-engine10
opensearch10
java10
restful10
elasticsearch10
elasticsearch-client9
playgrounds8
golang7
storage7
protobuf7
elastic7
database6
go6
protocol-buffers6
distributed-systems5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ZhaoQiling/DS2016
Oct 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:39 commits in 18 days
qilingzhao/elasticsearch
May 2021 - Jul 2021
Free and Open, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Contributions:5 pushes, 6 branches in 2 months
restfulsearch-engineelasticsearchsearchdistributed
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