Richard Mao
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRichard Mao is a software engineer based in San Francisco with eight years of experience building and deploying machine learning and deep learning systems across computer vision and NLP. Currently on Meta’s AI Data Privacy team, he brings production-first instincts from automating ML pipelines at Qualcomm to deployable detectors and web-hosted models for deepfake and audio classification. His background spans academic research—publishing on self-supervised pretraining—and hands-on engineering, from graph-cut energy formulations for vehicle labeling to real-time semantic pipelines for sales call analysis. He has strong practical skills in PyTorch, TensorFlow, AWS, and CI/CD tooling like Jenkins, and a track record of improving model efficiency through feature engineering and activation optimization. Notably, he has experience turning research prototypes into web services and production pipelines that balance accuracy with compute cost.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)Westview High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (44)
jna10
javascript9
java9
cpu-usage9
system-monitoring9
open-source9
angular9
operating-system9
process-list8
google-cloud8
leaf8
teammates8
typescript8
css8
hardware8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
rizhu/rizhu.github.io
Nov 2022 - Jun 2026
Contributions:78 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 7 months
rhu2001/silas
Sep 2019 - Dec 2019
Somewhat Interactive Linear Algebra Software
Contributions:68 commits, 6 PRs, 51 pushes in 3 months
linear-algebra
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