Steve Zhu
Software Engineer at Kneron
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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SeniorSteve Zhu is a versatile software engineer with nine years of experience building backend and full-stack systems, currently focused on edge AI and vision at Kneron in the San Francisco Bay Area. He blends industry experience at fast-paced consumer platforms (Meta/Instagram, Tencent, Douban) with research-oriented training from CMU's Robotics Institute, giving him a practical foothold in computer vision, deep learning, and robotics. Steve has shipped camera and reels auto-generation features at scale and contributed to backend systems for large social platforms, demonstrating an ability to move between production engineering and prototyping research ideas. He also has taught image processing and deep RL topics at Harvard and Cambridge, underscoring strong communication skills and a knack for translating complex algorithms into working demos. Notably, his background positions him to bridge on-device AI constraints with cloud-backed product needs—making him effective at turning vision research into deployable systems.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Chinese, English
Github Skills (6)
re-identification1
pytorch1
machine-learning1
deep-learning1
action-recognition1
video-understanding1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ZhihaoZhu/Topic-Guided--Attention-For-Image-Captioning
Oct 2018 - Apr 2019
Contributions:5 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 6 months
ZhihaoZhu/Auto-GUI-Code-Generation
Jul 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:19 commits, 2 PRs, 18 pushes in 11 months
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