Engineer Software

Zhihui (Victor) Chen

Tel: +1-213-***-**** Email: z *****.****@*****.***

https://www.linkedin.com/in/zhihui-v-chen

SKILLS:

Leadership: Tech lead 10+ engineers@google, coordinate development from offices across continents, entrepreneur mindset

Technical skill: Search and Ads ranking, Machine Learning (Tensorflow),NLP, Cloud Computing, Data Mining, Distributed System. Full stack development experience. Speech and organization skill: Toastmaster speaker and officer for 2+ yr. Programming skill: C ++ (20+ yrs), html5/javascript/css, php, mysql (recent 1 year), java, python, golang

AWARDS:

Google: Top-10 Engineer Achivement (Auction Redesign), YouTube Spot bonus

(Infrastructure redesign), 12 patents, 1 0 peer bonuses Huawei: Gold medal award (GSM Mobile system V1.0)

JOB EXPERIENCE

Summary: Google 10 yrs, Microsoft, 1 yr, a few yrs on other startups, Incubated a startup project on education.

Google Inc. Incubating project lead: openit.today: Oct 2016 - Present Incubation project founder

Main developer and PM for website http://openit.today, namely "Our Playful Education Network". The goal is to build a personalized learning platform for K-12 students. It is a visual search engine powered by a knowledge graph with 100K+ knowledge entities. Content recommendation is personalized and customized based on user interests and skill level.

Google Shopping Ads, 2015-2016

Uber Tech Lead

Led quality and machine learning projects around search ranking, query understanding, relevance prediction and machine learning. The business grew to $8B revenue on 2015. My responsible is around the whole stack of information retrieval and search ranking. Google Analytics, Convergence,2 014-2014

Tech Lead

Convergence he lps marketers more accurately evaluate marketing efforts to support better future decisions. We built backend pipeline processes 100TB+ of log data daily, join the data from different sources and build it into a Google designed terabyte database (F1) and presents the data into advertiser-customized view. Google Search Ads, 2013 – 2014

Tech lead

I architected and managed several projects: auction algorithm redesign, we deprecated the sub-optimal greedy algorithm in favor of the optimal dynamic programming, aka combinatory, algorithm; integrating search ads platform and shopping search auction systems; optimizing mobile ads platform and pricing mechanism. YouTube Search,2 006~2012

Tech Lead, Staff Software Engineer

Manage three teams for youtube search ranking and infrastructure. Coordinate development effort of ~5 engineers in headquarter and ~10 engineers from two remote teams, one in Japan, one in China. Support production releases and daily operations, oversea 1+ billions searches a day, and respond all kinds of user inquiries. Microsoft, M ountain View, CA

Researcher, Advisor: Rakesh Agrawal (Microsoft Fellow),2006 Search personalization with MSN social graph; search retrieval optimization Lotus Interworks Inc. Los Angeles, CA

Senior Engineer, VoIP PBX software development, system design, 2 005~2006 Led the VoIP PBX switch development and infrastructure design Velocity ISP, Sr. Software Engineer, 2004~2005

I was responsible for the ISP user management platform and routing algorithm design. USC, Research Assistant, 2002-2004

Huawei Technologies, 1995-2001

Product manager, Tech lead on product development of GSM components: MSC, HLR Guanjie electronics, 1993-1994

Hardware design engineer, design mother board for computer display EDUCATION

Ph.D Computer Science (On leave),USC, 2003-2004

M.S. Computer Science,2001-2003,GPA:4.0/4.0, Univ. of Southern California B.S on Electrical Engineer (IC Design), 1989-1993 Univ. of Ele. SciTech of China

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