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Fred Y. Zhao

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Highlights

  • Expertise in server-side abstractions from 5 years of maintaining legacy codebases
  • Basic competency in full-stack development from 3 years of building internal tools
  • Energized by collaborating across teams and scaling software systems organizationally
  • Passion for teaching others and building up durable repositories of knowledge
  • Experienced in Hacklang/PHP, JavaScript, and GraphQL; happy to learn whatever is needed

Experience

Proudest projects highlighted with ❤️ emoji below.

Software Engineer, Facebook: Menlo Park, California (July 2012 - Present)

  • General Contributions
    • Conducted ~300 interviews, with focus on product architecture
    • Participated in quorum for post-interview debrief sessions
    • Contributed to internal privacy, validation, and mutation frameworks
  • Recruiting Products: July 2019 - Current
    • Current Events
      • Built data model and ingested current events, coordinated with teammates to surface them to relevant recruiting tools
      • Result: xx incremental net hires of relevant candidates
  • Productivity Tools: August 2017 - July 2019
    • ❤️ Internal Notification Management
      • Built "Inbox Zero" features, launched suggested settings to proactively reduce notification noise
      • Result: positive employee feedback, xx% reduction of notification noise, xx% action rate on suggestions
    • Tasks
      • Built first-class support for project management features in internal task management tool: progress, group by X, sprint planning
      • Integrated those features into internal "if-this-then-that" automation engine
  • Photos Infrastructure / Sharing Infrastructure: July 2012 - July 2017
    • ❤️ Post Data Model Refactor
      • Refactored the data models used across sitewide user content to a unified model
      • Led coding effort in team of 2-6 engineers
      • Built adapter interfaces, test infrastructure, and a friendly service culture
      • Coordinated effort across many more engineers in related teams, both horizontal (pages, ads, groups) and vertical (news feed, timeline, data analytics)
      • Result: enabled full attachment editing (text, photo, video, link, multimedia) across all platforms (web, native apps, m-site)
      • Result: simplified complexity matrix for developing new content features
    • Albums and Shared Albums
      • Ported album uploader from flash to html5
      • Shipped shared albums on web after initial hackathon
      • Led cross-platform effort to extend to native apps
      • Expanded data model to multimedia and non-media content types
    • Team-wide engineering practices
      • Ramped up and recruited teammates, established oncall process, organized documentation
      • Result: many teammates and most practices have outlived my team tenure

Volunteering Experience

  • Tutor, EPA Dream Center: East Palo Alto (2015 - 2020)
    • Tutored elementary and middle school students in math and reading
  • Webmaster, Golden Gate Relay: San Francisco Bay Area (2019 - 2020)
    • Ported website from html+css to Wordpress with plugins, provided user feedback on content
  • Teaching Assistant, Street Code Academy: Menlo Park / East Palo Alto (2018 - 2019)
    • Volunteered in "Intro to App Design" and "Intro to Game Design" classes

Education

  • B.S. in Computer Science -- Caltech, Pasadena, California (2012)
  • Activities: Lloyd House (Social Co-Director), NCAA Tennis Team (Co-Captain)

Fun Facts

  • Bilingual in Chinese (conversational in speaking, native in reading)
  • Hobbies: tennis, distance running