Summary
Shulin Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience and a PhD in Computer Science from Penn State, based in Menlo Park. At Meta he has owned video upload infrastructure for creators and now leads video playback QoE, with billions to tens of billions of daily transactions flowing through his code. His background spans video infrastructure, mobile (iOS/Android), backend systems, ML and performance engineering, reflecting a rare blend of research depth and production-grade scalability. Prior internships in industry labs and work on model compression and compiler optimizations demonstrate his ability to translate academic research into high-impact, low-latency systems. He is known for driving reliability and quality-of-experience at extreme scale while keeping a practical engineering focus.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Computer Science at Penn State University
Bachelor of Science (BS), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, Bachelor of Science (BS), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician at Shandong University