Shiyu Zhao
Member Of Technical Staff at Fruta Invest
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShiyu Zhao is a seasoned software engineer and technical leader with nine years of experience building developer tooling, data systems, and privacy-focused products across major tech companies. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and founder of Fruta Invest, she combines hands-on engineering with product-minded entrepreneurship to simplify complex workflows—from institutional-grade property tools to large-scale CI and test platforms. Previously she led Core Developer Tools and data teams at Snap, and served as a technical lead on Facebook’s Privacy Product Team, driving cross-platform features and backend performance pipelines. Her background spans system architecture, developer experience, and data engineering, with early research and teaching roots from Caltech that inform a methodical, evidence-driven approach. Colleagues describe her as someone who reduces friction for engineers at scale while quietly building product businesses on the side.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
California Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, German
Github Skills (30)
sgd9
python9
machine-learning9
gpu9
deep-learning9
llm8
numpy8
tensor8
neural-network8
pytorch7
inference7
autograd7
lstm7
gpu-acceleration7
language-model7
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jiaweizzhao/ZerO-initialization
Oct 2021 - Nov 2022
Contributions:7 commits, 4 pushes in 1 year 1 month
jiaweizzhao/signSGD-with-Majority-Vote
Aug 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:11 commits, 2 PRs, 31 pushes in 9 months
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