Jinming Zhang
Software Engineer at TikTok
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJinming Zhang is a software engineer with nine years of experience who recently earned an MEng in Artificial Intelligence from UCLA and now works at TikTok. He has a strong track record building production-ready backend systems, scalable ingestion pipelines, and Retrieval-Augmented Generation solutions for real-world domains like legal tech and ESG. His internships drove measurable gains—improving LLM recall from 50% to 88% and pushing an IoT vision model to 98% real-time accuracy—showing skill across ML model tuning, data engineering, and MLOps. Comfortable with Graph RAG, ChromaDB, OCR pipelines, and agentic orchestration, he focuses on reducing hallucinations and improving reliability in generative systems. Colleagues describe him as pragmatic: he pairs rapid prototyping with robust observability and CI/CD to move proofs of concept into scalable products. Based in Los Angeles, he blends research-informed AI practice with hands-on backend engineering to deliver impactful, production-grade solutions.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at University of Wisconsin-MadisonUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (28)
kotlin10
algorithm10
unit-testing10
android-client10
jira10
python10
mvvm10
java10
data-structures10
android-application10
cpp10
computer-science10
integration-testing10
system-design9
mifos9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
zjmeow/EnrichedDay
Aug 2017 - Nov 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 13 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
zjmeow/Bubble
Oct 2017 - Feb 2019
Contributions:166 commits, 58 pushes, 2 branches in 1 year 4 months
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