Zhang Taiyuan
Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhang Taiyuan is a seasoned backend and ML engineer with 12 years building high-impact Search, Recommendation, and Ads Ranking systems across Meta, Coupang, and Google. He specializes in taking products from 0→1 rapidly and scaling incubator-stage features to demonstrable product-market fit via ranking and ML optimizations. At Meta he has driven ranking across diverse surfaces—typeahead, search pages, comment and notification ranking—while earlier work in integrity produced business-critical anti-abuse systems for malicious ads detection. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he blends rigorous academic training from Carnegie Mellon and Tsinghua with hands-on production experience in large-scale systems. Known for shipping fast and iterating with measurable uplift, he also has a background teaching search engines and improving real-time prediction accuracy in research projects.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computational Data Science Computer Science, Master of Computational Data Science Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University's College of EngineeringThe University of Hong Kong (HKU)Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (109)
opensearch10
python10
datasets10
deep-learning10
gpu10
elasticsearch10
gpu-acceleration10
acceleration10
numpy10
torchvision10
neural-network10
computer-vision10
tensor10
search-engine10
java10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
firstprayer/monsql
Sep 2013 - Jan 2015
Contributions:7 commits, 4 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 year 4 months
sqldatabasemysqlmongodb
firstprayer/firstprayer.github.com
Jan 2015 - Aug 2016
Contributions:8 pushes, 4 comments, 1 issue in 1 year 7 months
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