Summary
Roy Zheng is a Lead Developer based in Mountain View with over 15 years of software development experience and eight years in senior engineering and leadership roles focused on video streaming, distributed systems, and media infrastructure. He has led foundational work on live and VR streaming platforms, decentralized video delivery, and backend media services—most recently applying computer vision and ML to surgical telepresence at Avail Medsystems. Roy combines deep systems engineering from Akamai and Cisco with startup founding experience at Theta, where he built video delivery protocols and media analytics for decentralized networks. He is equally comfortable designing low-latency ingest/transcoding pipelines and shipping ML-powered post-analysis services, bridging research in computer vision with production-grade architectures. Notably, his background spans both content delivery at global scale and applied AI for real-time media, a blend that enables practical innovation in media-heavy products.
7 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Signal Processing, Bachelor’s Degree, Communication and Signal Processing at Xidian University
Master's Degree, Computer vision, machine learning, Master's Degree, Computer vision, machine learning at University of Maryland