Summary
Shang K is a software engineer with a decade of experience now working on Search AI at Google after four years in Risk & Compliance engineering within the same company. He holds both a BS and MS in Computer Science from NYU and taught as graduate teaching staff at the Courant Institute, blending rigorous academic foundations with production-facing engineering. Comfortable across front-end development and backend systems, he brings practical product sensibilities to AI-driven search features. His background in compliance engineering gives him a strong appreciation for reliability, privacy, and adversarial considerations in search systems. Based in Hangzhou, he combines global academic experience with work at one of the largest-scale platforms, often translating research ideas into deployable solutions. Notably, his trajectory reflects a shift from teaching and front-end roots toward applied AI infrastructure at scale.
10 years of coding experience