Yuzhi Zheng
Engineering Manager at Facebook
Menlo Park, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYuzhi Zheng is an engineering manager with 14 years of experience leading large-scale front-end and mobile engineering efforts at Facebook in Menlo Park, currently overseeing ~30 engineers across three React Native teams. He rose through hands-on roles across News Feed, Hashtags, Trending, and the Relay framework, blending product instincts with deep technical contributions to React/Relay internals. As a former core contributor to facebook/relay, he implemented mutation serialization and optimistic updates, demonstrating a knack for improving data consistency in complex UI systems. Yuzhi combines people leadership with regular technical ownership, moving teams from prototype to production while maintaining code quality and test coverage. An MIT computer science graduate, he is known for translating subtle engineering trade-offs into durable platform decisions that scale across millions of users.
14 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
English
Github Skills (13)
graphql10
relayer10
javascript10
wordpress-graphql10
wpgraphql10
react10
relay10
testing10
datastructures-algorithms8
algorithms8
data-structures8
algorithm8
data-structure8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
facebook/relay
Aug 2015 - Jun 2018
Relay is a JavaScript framework for building data-driven React applications.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:121 commits, 12 PRs, 9 pushes in 2 years 10 months
Contributions summary:Yuzhi contributed to the Relay framework by implementing features, fixing bugs, and improving data consistency. Their work included adding support for serializing mutations and adding support for optimistic edges in addition to general refactoring and code cleanup. They also touched on various files, which included adding and modifying a range of testing functions and files.
javascript-frameworkreact-applications
maksim-s/6.851-final_project
Apr 2012 - May 2012
Contributions:43 commits in 19 days
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