Summary
Zhaoyu Luo is a Staff Product Security Engineer in New York with 12 years of experience building and hardening large-scale infrastructure and production systems across leading consumer tech companies. He has progressed from backend and database roles in Beijing to SRE and infra leadership at Uber, Facebook, Peloton, and Notion, combining deep operational chops with product-focused security engineering. Known for thinking about concurrency as a distributed systems problem, he bridges reliability, data engineering, and security to prevent faults before they reach users. His background includes hands-on infra ownership and managing cross-functional teams, bringing practical experience from both startup and high-scale environments. Educated with an MS in Computer Science from UW–Madison, he blends rigorous engineering discipline with a talent for translating complex system trade-offs into actionable risk mitigations.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Computer Science, Master's Degree Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison
Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems General, Bachelor's Degree Management Information Systems General at University of International Relations
Portuguese, Korean, Russian, Chinese, Japanese, English