Zhaojun Zhang
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Meta
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhaojun Zhang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 12 years of experience blending software engineering, data science, and bioinformatics. He has led production ML and analytics platforms at Coursera and now drives Feed Ads engineering at Meta, building infrastructure that enables data-driven decisions at scale. His background spans academic research—developing scalable Bayesian models and RNA-seq algorithms—to industry systems for experimentation, ETL, and cloud-based collaborative analytics. Zhaojun is especially skilled at turning research-grade algorithms into efficient, production-ready pipelines and has a track record of improving developer velocity and data quality across organizations. He holds advanced degrees from UNC Chapel Hill and first cut his teeth on distributed systems during internships at Google and Quora, where his contributions shipped to production.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
BS Computer Science, BS Computer Science at Peking UniversityQinhuangdao No.1 Middle SchoolDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chinese, English
Github Skills (15)
lightning10
daemon10
cryptography9
lightning-network9
peer-to-peer9
blockchain9
bitcoin9
cryptocurrency9
wallet9
seq9
rna-seq8
transcript8
bioinformatics7
rapid5
skim4
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (3)
zzj/RNASkim
Apr 2014 - May 2017
Contributions:42 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 3 years 1 month
skimmethodbioinformaticsrapidrna-seq
zzj/lnd
Sep 2017 - Sep 2017
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
daemonlightningblockchainwalletcryptocurrency
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