Zhi Wang
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZhi Wang is a Principal Software Engineer based in Bellevue, Washington with 10 years of experience building large-scale distributed systems and safety-focused data platforms. Currently driving Security Data Lake work at Microsoft, he brings a strong background in content moderation, video safety and ML at scale from his time on TikTok’s Data-TnS Core Safety team. His career spans core Office 365 and Exchange Online infrastructure, IoT and smart-home systems at Latch, and earlier work in physics simulation, computational geometry and computer vision—reflecting a blend of systems engineering and applied research. Trained in computer science and mathematics at Beijing Normal University and Ohio State, he also has roots as a computational chemist and Ponder Group alumnus, an uncommon cross-disciplinary perspective that informs his approach to complex engineering problems.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Beijing Normal UniversityGraduate Study Computer Science, Graduate Study Computer Science at The Ohio State University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (34)
simulation10
beautifier10
codeblocks10
perl-script10
gpu10
tinker10
testing9
molecular-simulation9
dft9
test-framework9
beautify9
perl9
bdd9
yaml9
tdd9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zhi-wang/FortranArray
Aug 2018 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 release, 20 pushes, 5 branches in 2 years 4 months
zhi-wang/rc-config
Feb 2020 - Sep 2025
Contributions:61 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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