Summary
Shuwen Zhou is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience building large-scale data platforms and real-time recommendation systems, now working on feed ranking at Meta. Proficient in Go, Java, and Scala, he has led high-impact migrations and pipelines using Spark, Flink, HBase, HDFS and AWS to process petabytes daily while improving performance and cutting costs. He combines hands-on implementation—optimizing JVMs, tuning Spark, and deploying containerized services—with people leadership, mentoring teams and driving client-facing solutions. His background spans product-facing roles at Expedia and Baidu to data-engineering leadership at FreeWheel and Disney, giving him a strong mix of product sense and infrastructure expertise. Based in California, he also blends formal training in computer science and information science with product management study, enabling him to bridge technical execution and stakeholder-driven roadmaps.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Information Science/Studies, Master of Science - MS Information Science/Studies at Trine University
UNSW Sydney
High School Diploma Science, High School Diploma Science at 北京四中
Product Manager, Product Manager at Product Manager Accelerator
Exchange Computer Science, Exchange Computer Science at University of Pittsburgh