Summary
Yonghang Zhou is a software engineer with eight years of experience focused on backend development, infrastructure, and distributed systems, currently building at TikTok in California. His background spans fast-paced consumer and research environments, including internships and roles at Meta, Tencent, and Tsinghua University, and a solid academic foundation from Xiamen University and NYU. He brings practical experience from algorithm engineering to product-facing development, comfortable moving between low-level system design and large-scale service implementation. Known for combining research-minded rigor with production-oriented delivery, he often bridges academic insights with engineering constraints. Based in the U.S. with roots in top Chinese universities, he leverages a global perspective to solve reliability and scalability challenges in high-throughput systems.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Engineering at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Software Engineering at Xiamen University