Zian Zhao
Senior Software Engineer, Machine Learning at LinkedIn
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolZian Zhao is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in machine learning with four years of industry experience and an MS in Computer Science from Columbia University. He has built production-scale ML services at LinkedIn—owning skill taxonomy pipelines, APIs, and A/B validation—and earlier developed large-scale Spark-based backends for video audience analytics. His research background spans NLP and knowledge-base disambiguation from internships and RA roles at Columbia, CMU, UPenn, and SJTU, where he applied BERT, LSTM and MDPs to real problems. Based in California, he blends academic rigor with pragmatic engineering to move research ideas into robust, tested systems. Colleagues describe him as persistent and curious—“keep learning, keep trying”—which shows in his cross-institutional research collaborations and repeated production deployments.
4 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Science, Master of Science - MS, Computer Science at Columbia University in the City of New YorkBachelor's degree, Information engineering, Bachelor's degree, Information engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Github Skills (41)
logging9
cpp8
c-library8
logger8
facebook8
weaver7
trace5
nfv5
dynamodb5
spdlog5
lmdb4
dpdk4
persistent3
docker3
linux3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
ZhaoHaoRu/Federated-Clustering-of-Bandits
Nov 2021 - Jun 2022
Contributions:27 commits, 5 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
ZhaoHaoRu/Group-Purchase-Monolithic-Architecture-Backend
Sep 2022 - Aug 2023
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Contributions:2 PRs, 2 pushes, 6 branches in 11 months
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