Summary
Weida Zhao is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms, developer experience tooling, and business AI/NLP solutions, now serving as Director of Engineering at Zoom. He has led cross-functional teams that span engineering and research, driving natural language search and Q&A capabilities for enterprise products at Microsoft and AIML initiatives at Apple. At Tencent Cloud he directed the low-code application platform WeDa, blending platform engineering with product-focused delivery. Comfortable at the intersection of developer DX, cloud infrastructure, and applied NLP, he has a track record of turning research-grade AI into production-ready features for large-scale business scenarios. Based in Redmond and holding a master's in computer science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, he pairs deep technical roots with pragmatic people leadership and a knack for shipping complex distributed systems.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Shanghai Jiao Tong University