Zhang Taiyuan
About
Zhang Taiyuan is from San Francisco Bay Area. Zhang works in the following industries: "Internet", and "Higher Education". Zhang is currently Software Engineer at Facebook, located in Menlo Park, CA. In Zhang's previous role as a Graduate Teaching Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University, Zhang worked in Greater Pittsburgh Area until Dec 2015. Prior to joining Carnegie Mellon University, Zhang was a Software Engineer Intern at Google and held the position of Software Engineer Intern at Mountain View, CA. Prior to that, Zhang was a Research Assistant at School of Computer Science, Carnegie Mellon University, based in Pittsburgh from Dec 2014 to May 2015. Zhang started working as Software Engineer Intern at Hulu in Beijing City, China in Jul 2013.
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Zhang Taiyuan's current jobs
Software Engineer in Machine Learning Infra, Search Relevance & Ranking areas. Worked on: * Large-scale real-time counter services * Multi-arm bandit * Query suggestion (typeahead, related searches) * Multi-media content search & recommendation
Zhang Taiyuan's past jobs
Teaching assistant for 11442/11642 Search Engine.
Work on Google Apps backend storage system. 1. Added more precise read consistency control in a key component (Read Mixer) of the system 2. Refactored the system by extracting Read Mixer as standalone server binary to support future architectural change and further optimization
1. Maintained and developed backend server of Tiramisu, a bus tracker app 2. Developed an internal online monitor tool for data analysis with Play and Scala 3. Developed and tuned new prediction model for real-time bus arrival. Increased the percentage of accurate prediction (error within 1 min) by ~20% and brought improvements on other metrics as well
Developing an online-simulation tool for the Recommendation Team. Techniques include: Front end - jQuery, AngularJS. Back end: Python & Django, MongoDB.