Rick Zhuang
Chief Technology Officer at Firework
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolRick Zhuang is a seasoned technology executive and CTO based in the San Francisco Bay Area, blending a PhD in machine learning with 15+ years of product and engineering leadership across major internet companies. He built foundational content and commerce platforms at Alibaba—founding Taobao’s content ecosystem and leading Tmall New Retail programs reported to the Group CEO—and later scaled video commerce globally as Firework’s CTO. His background spans personalization and big-data driven product innovation from Yahoo! and Tencent to startup advisory roles in insurtech, reflecting a rare mix of deep ML research, product intuition, and operational scaling. Known for translating academic rigor into high-impact commercial systems, he pairs strategic vision with hands-on execution across AI/ML, content, and retail technologies.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Sloan Fellow Master in Management, Sloan Fellow Master in Management at Stanford University Graduate School of BusinessPh.D Machine Learning and Data Mining, Ph.D Machine Learning and Data Mining at Penn State UniversityManagement Science and Engineering, Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University
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Github Skills (23)
accessibility10
framer-motion10
spring10
animation10
gesture10
vue10
react10
ui-components9
nuxt9
component-library9
radix-ui8
axios6
javascript6
typescript5
router5
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
motiondivision/motion-vue
Nov 2024 - Apr 2025
A animation library for Vue
Contributions:25 releases, 2 reviews, 107 PRs in 4 months
animationframer-motionmotionmotion-vuevue
rick-hup/amazon-crwaler
Sep 2019 - Feb 2021
亚马逊爬虫程序
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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