Yunqi Zhang
Software Engineer at Facebook
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYunqi Zhang is a software engineer in New York with 13 years of experience specializing in distributed systems, data center architecture, machine learning, and natural language processing. Currently at Facebook, he has a strong research-to-production trajectory that includes a PhD-level background and research internships at Microsoft Research, IBM, and Facebook. He has held technical leadership roles at Clinc, including CIO and team lead, where he bridged research, product, and operations. His open-source contributions include back-end audio processing work for an intelligent personal assistant (claritylab/lucida), showing practical expertise in audio data pipelines and real-time recording. Yunqi blends deep academic training with hands-on systems engineering, often translating ML and NLP research into scalable services. Colleagues rely on him for designing resilient infrastructure that supports complex AI workloads.
13 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at UCSDMaster’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Computer Science and Engineering at University of MichiganBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Github Skills (3)
web-audio-api10
javascript10
audio-processing9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
claritylab/lucida
Jan 2015 - Mar 2016
Speech and Vision Based Intelligent Personal Assistant
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:90 commits, 2 PRs, 27 pushes in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Yunqi added JavaScript code for recording audio and developed a recorder worker. The commits show the implementation of a WAV encoder and recorder functionality. This suggests work focused on handling audio data within the "Speech and Vision Based Intelligent Personal Assistant" project, indicating back-end development.
visionassistantspeech-to-textspeech-recognitionpersonal-assistant
yqzhang/ClearSuite
Oct 2013 - Aug 2017
Contributions:36 commits, 1 PR, 3 pushes in 3 years 10 months
bash-scriptsbenchmarkscloudsuitebash
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