Vincent Zhao
Member Of Technical Staff at OpenAI
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolVincent Zhao is a machine-learning-focused software engineer and researcher with 12 years of experience building production ML systems and developer-facing infrastructure. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI, he previously led research engineering efforts at Google Brain/DeepMind and co-founded Augment to create advanced AI coding tools. His work spans pretraining and instruction fine-tuning (lead author on FLAN), retrieval-augmented models, and safety research such as Constitutional AI for Bard. Vincent combines deep academic training (PhD in ML/Computational Biology from Yale) with hands-on backend engineering—contributing to open-source projects like Grafeas and the Google Ads PHP client where he synchronized protobufs and regenerated bindings. Based in San Francisco, he blends research rigor with production reliability and a quiet sense of humor (Slow horse—“I’m the one on the right”).
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning Computational Biology, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) Machine Learning Computational Biology at Yale UniversityB.S Mathematics and Physics (Zhiyuan College), B.S Mathematics and Physics (Zhiyuan College) at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
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Github Skills (14)
php10
google-ads-api10
go10
backend10
protobuffer10
back-end-development10
protobuf10
api-design9
apidoc9
api9
release-automation9
release-management9
oauth-provider6
oauth6
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
grafeas/grafeas
Nov 2017 - Dec 2019
Artifact Metadata API
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:194 commits, 189 PRs, 164 pushes in 2 years 1 month
Contributions summary:Vincent's contributions focus on modifying and maintaining the Grafeas protobuf definitions, including adding new fields, removing deprecated fields, and fixing documentation. They synchronized internal changes to open-source protos, regenerated Go bindings, and removed a vendor dependency. The user also updated the proto files and related Go code, changing the definitions to reflect modifications in the service definition.
metadata-apiapiartifactmetadata
googleads/googleads-php-lib
Dec 2013 - Mar 2017
Google Ads API Client Library for PHP (AdWords and Ad Manager)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:18 releases, 44 commits, 10 PRs in 3 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Vincent appears to be preparing and releasing new versions of the Google Ads PHP library, indicating a focus on back-end development. The commits mainly involve changes to the `src` directory, which likely contains the core PHP code for interacting with the Google Ads API. The user's contributions consist of updating files to reflect version releases.
api-clientapiad-manageradsgoogle
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