Chengyi Zhang
Staff Software Engineer at Meta
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolChengyi Zhang is a Staff Software Engineer based in Sunnyvale with a decade of experience building large-scale infrastructure and recommendation systems. Currently leading end-to-end retrieval and ranking infrastructure for Facebook Marketplace, he architects distributed systems and ML serving stacks that handle over a billion users while optimizing latency, throughput, and resource efficiency. His background spans systems, compilers, and server-side development, informed by an M.Eng. in Computer Engineering from UIUC and early search and ads internships at Alibaba and Meta. Known for operating critical indexing, feature-serving, and model-serving components under strict availability constraints, he combines deep systems thinking with hands-on delivery at web scale.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering, Master of Engineering - MEng Computer Engineering at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Zhejiang University
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Github Skills (9)
video-player9
mpv9
swift9
cpp8
macos8
typescript7
compiler6
game-engine5
python1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
zurl/CauchyDB
Mar 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:31 commits, 1 PR, 5 pushes in 6 months
zurl/ElfGE
Oct 2017 - Sep 2018
The Elf Game Engine 小精灵引擎
Contributions:99 commits, 3 PRs, 77 pushes in 10 months
game-engine
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