Summary
Shaohua Zhou is an engineering manager in San Francisco with 13 years of experience building full-stack, high-throughput products and leading teams from seed to scale. He has led zero-to-one AI product launches and shared AI infrastructure at Webflow, managed mission-critical homepage and marketing systems driving double-digit revenue impact at DoorDash, and built ML inference and MLOps pipelines at a startup acquired by Snap. Skilled at growing and recruiting high-performing engineering teams, he combines hands-on systems design (backend services, RAG/LLM wrappers, server-driven UI) with product-minded execution across mobile and web. Notably, he established cross-vendor LLM tooling and evaluation platforms that enabled rapid model swapping and quality control, reflecting a practical blend of research-grade ML ops and production reliability.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., B.S. at Peking University
University of California, Irvine
Chinese, English