Summary
Tiannan Zhou is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building developer-facing and ad-tech systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff on Developer Infrastructure at OpenAI. He spent several years at Google driving end-to-end integrations for Search Ads 360, leading realtime API servers, data-intensive synchronization pipelines, and full-stack features for inventory authorization, buying, tracking, and measurement. Comfortable across Layer 7 API design, event-driven pipelines, and product-facing services, he brings a pragmatic systems mindset shaped by both research and production roles. Educated in computer science (BS, MS) with an early telecommunications engineering background, he blends algorithmic rigor with large-scale engineering practice. A former teaching assistant and research developer, he retains a knack for translating complex technical requirements into clear, maintainable systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE Telecommunications Engineering at Nanjing University of Posts and Telecommunications
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Minnesota
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
High School Diploma General Science, High School Diploma General Science at Changzhou Senior High School
Spanish, English, Chinese