Hongze Z.

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 3 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Expert in building scalable machine learning infrastructure.
  • Proven track record in optimizing deep learning models.
  • Strong background in backend development and model serving.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-heavy Fullstack Engineer with expertise in Machine Learning and Infrastructure.

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Skills

Other Skills

C++CJavaDistributed SystemsC#LinuxData CenterAlgorithmsComputer ScienceProgrammingBadmintonStrutsSoftware EngineeringASP.NETPython

Experience

11 yrs 3 mos
Total Experience
1 yr 8 mos
Average Tenure
10 mos
Current Experience

Pinterest

Staff Software Engineer

Jul 2025Present · 10 mos · Palo Alto, California, United States · Hybrid

  • Ads ML Infra

Harvey

Software Engineer

Mar 2025Jul 2025 · 4 mos

  • Building backend and model serving infra.

Nuro

2 roles

Staff Software Engineer, ML Infra

Jan 2025Mar 2025 · 2 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • Developing SOTA training and inference optimization solutions for the cutting edge deep learning models in self driving cars.

Tech Lead Manager, ML Infra

Oct 2020Jan 2025 · 4 yrs 3 mos · Mountain View, California, United States

  • I lead a group of talented engineers building the core machine learning infrastructure at Nuro:
  • 1. Improve the scalability and stability of distributed training.
  • 2. Optimize the latency and memory usage of onboard model inference.

Airbnb

Senior Machine Learning Engineer

Feb 2016Oct 2020 · 4 yrs 8 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Develop and integrate machine learning models running through every transactions on Airbnb to detect financial fraud.
  • Build frameworks and pipelines to accelerate model retraining, deployment and interpretation.

Microsoft research, silicon valley

Research Intern

May 2015Aug 2015 · 3 mos · Mountain View, CA

  • Analyze enterprise network failure reports with NLP models and construct knowledge base for faster failure diagnosis.
  • Build network update timeline for automatic failure diagnosis and recovery.

Facebook

Security Engineer Intern

May 2014Aug 2014 · 3 mos · Menlo Park, CA

  • Built big data pipeline to collect network layer signals from user requests for threat evaluation.
  • Built machine learning models to classify malicious users with network layer signals.

Microsoft research asia

Intern

Jul 2012Mar 2013 · 8 mos · Beijing City, China

  • Built an experimental data center with 128 Window servers and 16 software-defined-networking routers.
  • Wrote a router software to support an experimental ECMP routing protocol.

Education

Duke University

Master of Science (M.S.) — Computer Science

Jan 2013Jan 2015

Tsinghua University

Bachelor of Engineering (BE) — computer science

Jan 2009Jan 2013

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