Summary
Qiyu Zhang is a seasoned systems engineer and technology leader with nine years of experience building large-scale AI and infrastructure platforms across Alibaba and ASML, now based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has led end-to-end AI pipelines and deep learning platforms that power hundreds of millions of users and process billions of data points daily, achieving up to 10x improvements in data efficiency through creative use of active learning and online/offline prediction. Equally comfortable in hands-on engineering and high-level strategy, Qiyu has driven HMI HPC computation platform roadmaps and guided architectural design for Alibaba’s PAI—now one of the largest cloud ML platforms. His background spans web, backend, and distributed systems from early PayPal and NEC roles to directing cross-functional teams, reflecting a rare blend of product-minded execution and scalable systems thinking.
9 years of coding experience