Ziyun Kong is a seasoned engineering leader with nine years of experience building consumer-facing social and AR products, now heading engineering for Lemon8 at ByteDance after leading Social and Friends teams across TikTok. She combines deep systems and AR/positioning expertise from Google (ARCore, Visual Positioning Service, Maps/Local Shopping) with a track record of scaling global full‑stack teams to deliver core product features that drive content creation and social interaction. Comfortable at the intersection of research and product, she published and contributed to concurrency analysis work during her graduate studies at the University of Michigan. Based in Shanghai, she brings a pragmatic, ship‑fast mentality—summed up by her Github motto “明天的事,就交给明天的我吧”—while focusing on long‑term platform robustness and innovation.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science, Computer Science, Master of Science, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science (BS) in Engineering, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Contributions:99 commits, 34 PRs, 46 pushes in 2 months
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Ziyun Kong - Head Of Engineering, Lemon8 at TikTok