Xiangfei Zhu
Software Engineer at Apple
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXiangfei Zhu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in AI search technologies and Retrieval-Augmented Generation, currently contributing to Apple’s engineering efforts from Mountain View. Previously a Principal Software Engineer and Engineering Director at Google for over a decade, he has a strong track record delivering large-scale search and ML-driven systems at major tech companies including Yahoo!. He holds advanced degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University and a Ph.D. from the University of Virginia, blending deep research training with production-focused engineering. Known as a professional programmer on GitHub, he pairs systems-level thinking with hands-on implementation to move RAG and search prototypes into robust production services. A subtle strength is his career-spanning ability to bridge research and product teams, accelerating adoption of cutting-edge retrieval and generation techniques in consumer-facing products.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D., Ph.D. at University of VirginiaB.S. & M.S., B.S. & M.S. at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese
Github Skills (133)
windows10
spiral10
search-api10
wechat10
laravel10
api10
sdk10
payment10
color-picker10
java10
php-application10
chinese-simplified10
alipay10
application-server10
jack10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
Xiang1993/t380
Jul 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:174 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
shellphy/jack-compiler
May 2015 - Sep 2020
jack语言编译器
Contributions:255 commits, 2 PRs, 243 pushes in 5 years 4 months
javajack
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