Rocky Zhang
Product at Airbnb
Beijing, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRocky Zhang is a product leader and full-stack PM with a decade of experience bridging machine learning, e-commerce, gaming, and startups. He helped invent collaborative filtering used in large-scale recommendation systems and has owned multiple 10M+ MAU products across Amazon, Craftsy, and Electronic Arts. Rocky combines hands-on engineering chops—contributions to Android tooling for APK signature and channel management—with advanced ML research (his HMM thesis on financial time series is a top search result). He founded one of the earliest soccer analytics startups and has driven personalization and ML-powered discovery at Redfin and Airbnb. With an MS in Computer Science and an MBA focused on product strategy, he excels at taking ML innovations from prototype to production at scale.
10 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Product strategy, Master of Business Administration (MBA), Product strategy at University of Michigan - Stephen M. Ross School of BusinessM.S., Computer Science, M.S., Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
1,314reputation
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30answers
35questions
Github Skills (18)
command-line-interface10
java10
javas10
android10
command-line10
gradlew10
cli10
gradle10
file-handling8
file-processing8
file-access8
fileio8
margin6
drawable6
shared-element-transition6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Tencent/VasDolly
Jun 2017 - Jun 2017
Android V1 and V2 Signature Channel Package Plugin
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:7 commits, 5 PRs, 5 comments in 1 day
Contributions summary:Rocky contributed to the `tencent/vasdolly` project, which focuses on Android APK signature and channel package management. They primarily worked on the command-line interface functionality for inspecting and manipulating APKs. Their contributions included adding features for getting the signature mode and channel information, as well as refactoring the code to improve the CLI's usability and adding the function to write channels into the APKs, and also optimizing the file copy operation to speed up the process.
gradleandroidstudio-pluginsignatureandroidplugin
zysidea/ShareElementTransition
Oct 2016 - Jan 2018
Contributions:12 commits, 9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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