Xiang Zhong
Beijing, United States
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Top SchoolXiang Zhong is a Staff Engineer specializing in ad formats and monetization with 12 years of experience building high-impact, customer-facing ad and commerce products across Facebook, TikTok, and Pinterest. He has led and grown engineering teams to deliver scalable monetization platforms—launching TikTok Shop ads from zero to $700K/day and managing a US forward-transaction team supporting $50M weekly GMV. Deeply technical and product-minded, he combines backend systems expertise with front-end contributions (including enhancements to a widely used jQuery date-range picker) and practical AI/ML experience from earlier research and internships. Xiang is skilled at defining cross-functional product roadmaps, driving team growth and performance reviews, and translating advertising signals into measurable revenue gains. Based in Beijing with a UCLA CS master’s, he thrives at the intersection of ads, e-commerce, and AI, often turning ambiguous product needs into operational, data-driven systems.
12 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronic Information Science and Technology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Electronic Information Science and Technology at Sun Yat-sen UniversityUniversity of California, Los AngelesThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese, Spanish
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
javascript10
jquery10
rvm10
ui-design10
daterangepicker10
uid10
front-end-development10
ruby9
momentjs9
ruby-on-rails9
html8
css8
sql-like6
ctags6
vim6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
longbill/jquery-date-range-picker
May 2014 - Jun 2014
A jQuery plugin that allows user to select a date range
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:13 commits in 19 days
Contributions summary:Xiang primarily contributed to the development and enhancement of the jQuery date range picker plugin's user interface and functionality. Their work involved fixing bugs related to date selection behavior, such as auto-closing and batch mode interactions. They also introduced a new feature for selecting weeks or months (batchMode), and improved the overall usability by allowing the selection of dates in the last or next months. The user updated the moment.js dependency and made minor UI adjustments.
jqueryjavascriptjquery-plugindate-rangerange
lingceng/bing_dictionary
Nov 2015 - Aug 2021
Contributions:1 release, 17 commits, 30 pushes in 5 years 10 months
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