Zhenning Tan
Senior Machine Learning Engineer at Tinder
San Jose, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhenning Tan is a Senior Machine Learning Engineer in San Jose with 11 years of experience building end-to-end LLM, NLP, and recommender-system products at companies including Tinder, Snap, Google, and Amazon. He bridges research and production—publishing on LLMs for conversational recommendation at Google Research and advancing speaker-identification techniques at Alexa—while shipping chatbots and agent applications in consumer products. With a PhD in Biochemistry and an MS in Computer Science, he brings uncommon cross-disciplinary expertise in experimental design, large-scale model development, and applied evaluation. Colleagues rely on him to frame ambiguous problems, turn noisy real-world data into robust models, and operationalize LLM capabilities for product impact.
11 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of TechnologyDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Biochemistry at Indiana University BloomingtonBachelor of Science (BS) Biotechnology, Bachelor of Science (BS) Biotechnology at Zhejiang University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (68)
twitter10
mod-manager10
youtube10
music10
favorites10
thunderbolt10
lgbt10
poe10
high-performance9
webview9
catalina9
zeal9
purge9
windows-desktop9
crossword9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
teeerrytan/daily-briefing
Apr 2019 - Jun 2019
Contributions:62 commits, 52 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
teeerrytan/shopping-cart
Sep 2019 - Sep 2021
Contributions:8 PRs, 15 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years
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