Summary
Wenyu Zhang is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building data and backend infrastructure, most recently working on Instagram Ads infrastructure at Meta after leading Yahoo Finance’s Data Infra team. He has deep hands-on experience designing scalable backend systems and privacy-preserving architectures, with a background spanning startups (Novo Vivo) and research-driven projects in UAV deep learning. Comfortable across languages and stacks (C++, Java, Spring, GCP, Docker, PostgreSQL), he excels at taking services from prototype to production and mentoring engineering teams. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends product-focused engineering with a research mindset from his Syracuse University CS graduate work, often surfacing practical algorithmic improvements in production systems.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at Zhengzhou University
Master's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at Syracuse University College of Engineering and Computer Science
Chinese, English