About

Rui Z. is a highly skilled and experienced Machine Learning Engineer with over 6 years of relevant experience. He is currently working at Snapchat, where he is responsible for ads ranking modeling. Prior to this, Rui worked at Facebook as a Machine Learning Engineer, where he honed his skills in ML applications. He was also a Software Engineer at Twitter, where he spent 4 years working on machine learning models and serving systems for advertising. Rui's expertise in machine learning and software engineering is evident in his work experience. At Twitter, he was involved in various aspects of computational advertising, from user attributes modeling to CTR prediction to ads serving backend system refactoring. He has experience with both offline data processing using HDFS and TensorFlow modeling, as well as online streaming service updates. Rui was also part of the pure backend serving system refactor for better experimentation and product support, where he worked on the mono-service decomposition to help have separation of concerns for different teams. Rui has a Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Information Engineering from the Huazhong University of Science and Technology. His technical skills include ML, software engineering, backend development, HDFS, TensorFlow, and microservices. Rui is a highly motivated and dedicated individual with a passion for machine learning and software engineering. He is always looking for new challenges and opportunities to expand his knowledge and skills. Rui is open to networking and can be contacted at frankzhangrui@gmail.com.