Zhaojun Zhang
Summary
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SeniorZhaojun 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
Github Skills (12)
cryptography9
lightning-network9
blockchain9
peer-to-peer9
bitcoin9
cryptocurrency9
lightning9
seq9
rna-seq8
bioinformatics6
transcript6
skim5
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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