Rick Jiang
Senior Director at Meta
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRick Jiang is a Senior Director and seasoned software engineer with nine years focused on building backend systems, data platforms, and production-grade AI evaluation at companies including Meta and Scale AI. He led LLM security, red teaming, and automated auditing efforts—bringing RLHF, prompt-level risk mitigation, and interpretability techniques into model release pipelines. Earlier roles at Yahoo honed his expertise in high-availability data analytics, real-time pipelines, and model drift/bias detection, giving him a strong bridge between research and operational systems. An active open-source contributor, he’s implemented front-end UX and internationalization improvements in popular community projects like YesPlayMusic and helped harden Next.js/Tailwind starter tooling. Based in San Francisco with an MS in Computer Science from USC, he combines hands-on engineering, team mentorship, and pragmatic risk frameworks to ship secure, auditable AI systems.
9 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Southern California
English
Github Skills (21)
javascript10
electron10
css10
microblogging10
nextjs10
tailwindcss10
vue10
blogpost10
react10
mdx9
html9
audio-player8
i18n-js8
music8
sound-player8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
qier222/YesPlayMusic
Mar 2021 - Jan 2022
高颜值的第三方网易云播放器，支持 Windows / macOS / Linux :electron:
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:4 reviews, 8 commits, 12 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Rick primarily contributed to the front-end development of the YesPlayMusic application. Their work included implementing new features such as adjusting lyric font sizes and introducing an "intelligent play" mode. Furthermore, they addressed UI/UX improvements by modifying the navigation bar and enhancing the overall user experience through updates to the library interface and the inclusion of a "listening history" section. They also contributed to internationalization efforts.
pwavuevideomusic-playerplayer
timlrx/tailwind-nextjs-starter-blog
Aug 2021 - May 2022
This is a Next.js, Tailwind CSS blogging starter template. Comes out of the box configured with the latest technologies to make technical writing a breeze. Easily configurable and customizable. Perfect as a replacement to existing Jekyll and Hugo individual blogs.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits, 8 PRs, 10 comments in 9 months
Contributions summary:Rick contributed to bug fixes and implemented new features within this Next.js and Tailwind CSS blogging starter template. They addressed issues related to email address validation, Disqus configuration, and the loading of external JavaScript due to Content Security Policy restrictions. Additionally, the user enhanced the user experience by implementing a "page not found" title and improving the scroll-to-top button functionality.
next-jstailwindcsshugodemo-blogtailwind
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