Ying Zhi
Head Of Product at ByteDance
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
🤩
Rockstar🎓
Top SchoolYing (Fiona) Zhi is a data-driven product and marketing leader with 16 years’ experience building growth, analytics and engagement strategies for high‑velocity consumer products across ByteDance, TikTok and Uber. As one of the youngest senior directors at ByteDance and former youngest national head at Uber, she combines strategic vision with hands‑on analytics—SQL, R and A/B testing—to optimize user lifecycle, promo efficiency and loyalty programs. Based in San Francisco, she now leads product at TikTok, overseeing marketing and operations for major apps including Douyin and Huoshan while continuously delivering top‑percentile performance. An active contributor to open-source backend tooling, her GitHub work on Cloudflare libraries shows a pragmatic engineering mindset that complements her product instincts. Known for rapid learning and a competitive, improvement‑oriented drive, she excels at translating data into scalable marketing and product initiatives.
16 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Accounting and Finance, Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.), Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Accounting and Finance at Tianjin University
Github Skills (17)
openresty10
distributed-computing10
lua10
http-cookie10
logging10
nginx10
documentation10
api-design9
testing9
udp9
networking9
python9
tcp9
machine-learning8
website-design7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
uber/fiber
Jan 2020 - Mar 2021
Distributed Computing for AI Made Simple
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:149 commits, 49 PRs, 81 pushes in 1 year 2 months
Contributions summary:Ying primarily focused on improving the documentation and website layout for the `uber/fiber` repository. Their contributions include fixing broken links in the documentation, updating the website image layout, and refining code example styles. Additionally, the user made minor changes related to version bumping and setting content types, indicative of ongoing project maintenance and refinement.
raypythonmultiprocessingsandboxmachine-learning
cloudflare/lua-resty-logger-socket
Oct 2013 - Aug 2016
Raw-socket-based Logger Library for Nginx (based on ngx_lua)
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 111 commits, 3 PRs in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Ying primarily contributed to the development of a logging library for Nginx. They implemented features to support remote logging over TCP, handling potential connection failures, and improving performance by clearing buffers efficiently. They also refactored the code by removing global variables and adding configuration options, as well as adding support for UDP logging. These changes focused on improving the reliability and functionality of the logging system.
nginxluasocketngx-lualogger
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.