Zhaoyue Cheng
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning at Google DeepMind
United States
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Top SchoolZhaoyue Cheng is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with nine years of experience building and optimizing production LLM infrastructure and recommendation systems. Currently at Google DeepMind, he works on Gemini Agents, tool use, and safety while previously delivering TPU/GPU, JAX/XLA, and kernel-level performance improvements for large-scale training and inference. His background includes senior ML roles at Meta and as a founding engineer at Layer 6 AI (acquired by TD), where he led end-to-end applied ML, recommendation, NLP, and explainability projects across enterprise products. He holds a Master’s and Bachelor’s in Computer Science (and Mathematics) from the University of Toronto and has taught there as a TA. Known for bridging research and production, he repeatedly turns experimental models and internal ML frameworks into scalable deployments. An understated strength is his hands-on experience across both low-level compute optimizations and higher-level product-facing ML systems.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
English, Chinese
Github Skills (32)
large-language-models10
llm10
gpt10
recommender10
nlp10
pytorch9
python9
machine-learning9
bert9
natural-language-processing9
recommender-system9
tensorflow9
deep-learning9
speech-recognition9
transformer9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
ZhaoyueCheng/ZhaoyueCheng
Sep 2021 - Apr 2024
Contributions:16 pushes in 2 years 7 months
ZhaoyueCheng/WSDM_Spotify
Jan 2019 - May 2022
Contributions:9 pushes in 3 years 4 months
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