Zhicheng Wan
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolZhicheng Wan is an engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading cross-platform product and infrastructure teams at major tech companies including TikTok and Meta. He built TikTok Music’s US engineering organization from 0 to 32 engineers and shipped products spanning music discovery, promotion, and copyright management, blending backend services in Go with mobile and web clients. Previously he led teams that launched Messenger Rooms, Live Rooms, and other social multimedia features at Facebook, demonstrating a strong track record of shipping consumer-facing, system-level products at scale. Technically fluent across Java, Python, C++, SQL, PHP and modern mobile stacks, he pairs hands-on engineering depth with people and project management skills. Academically grounded with an MS in Computer Science from Columbia and an MBA candidate at UC Berkeley, he brings product-minded leadership and strategic insight to growth-stage engineering organizations. Based in New York and active as an investor through Courtyard Ventures, he combines operator experience with early-stage venture perspective.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration - MBA, Master of Business Administration - MBA at University of California, Berkeley, Haas School of BusinessMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Columbia UniversityBachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Japanese, Chinese
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Github Skills (6)
threaded6
state-machine5
replication5
functional-programming4
state-management3
xinput1
Github contributions (5)
wanzc12345/Advanced-Internet-Services
Feb 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:49 commits, 36 pushes in 2 months
hemingcui/m-smr
Oct 2014 - Dec 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 2 months
state-managementfunctional-programmingreplicationmulti-threadedstate-machine-replication
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