Summary
Zhanglong Ji is a Machine Learning Engineer with nine years of experience bridging research and production, currently building ML systems at Snap after leading People You May Know and People to Follow initiatives at Meta. He holds a PhD in Computer Science from UCSD and a BS in Statistics from Peking University, and has a track record of shipping high-impact recommendation treatments that grew millions of daily users. Comfortable spanning strategy, hiring, and hands-on model engineering, he has recruited and grown engineering and analytics teams while driving multi-org alignment. Earlier roles range from backend systems and NLP to privacy-preserving ML research, reflecting a rare mix of product-facing experimentation and rigorous academic foundations.
9 years of coding experience