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Hi, I’m

Liang Zhu

San Jose,CA

Summary

An engineer leader with strategic thinking, passion both user facing products and technical challenges, and strong empathy.

Overview

10
years of professional experience

Work History

TikTok

Engineer Leader at Privacy Product
10.2022 - Current

Job overview

Grew a team from 15 to 40+, currently managing 3 teams with 40+ engineers:
* User Protection, which ensure age coverage, age accuracy, and provide protection for TikTok young users.
* User Data Subject Rights, which fulfills data subject rights defined by GDPR, such as data access, data portability, with user facing products (e.g. Download Your Data), efficiency tools, as well as centralized user data platform.

* Privacy Policy Framework, which provide a unified policy enforcement framework with boosted efficiency, reliability and transparency.


Key Projects:

* Change Registration Region, which, as part of data sovereignty effort, allows users switch region from/to isolated regions like US. It requires heavy collaboration with 50+ business lines with 100 POCs across the entire TikTok.

* US State Laws. Since 2023, each US state starts to enforce their own customized laws protecting teens/children. Our team takes the lead to fulfill all requirements from age, location, family pairing, parent concent, access control of user facing features, and many more minor protection related features.

* User Data Platform, which is an efficient and compliant service serves as a middleware between business teams who owns user data, and a handful of privacy products who provide user data access to external parties (user, legal request, researcher, etc.)


Meta

Staff Software Engineer
02.2017 - 09.2022

Job overview

- Privacy Consumer Experience (2020.1 - 2022.9)

* Explored directions of privacy data controls & developed solutions that can resolve people privacy problems and re-build trust between Meta and users
* Led an engineer team to generalize/standardize data de-identification technologies and support company-wide needs. Data de-identification is a cutting edge technology as an alternative of data deletion, which is more efficient and reliable but still compliance with privacy laws.

- Goodwill (2017.2 - 2020.1)

helped build highly scalable, reliable, efficient and cost-effective backend services to power personalized products which show care to FB users, e.g. Personalized Videos, Memories, Culture Moments, Weather, Tips, etc.

Amazon AWS

Software Developing Engineer
02.2015 - 02.2017

Job overview

Worked in the Simple Notification Service (SNS) team. SNS is a large-scale distributed system that can instantly send or fanout large amount of messages to various endpoints like mobile app, email, text message, AWS SQS, and more...

Education

University of Texas At Austin
Austin, TX

Master of Science from Electrical And Computing Engineering
12.2014

Chinese Academy of Science
Shanghai, China

Master of Science from Optical Engineering
06.2012

Zhejiang University
Hangzhou, China

Bachelor of Science from Physics
06.2009

Skills

    engineer management

    directional/roadmapping

    large scale system

    project management with company-wide collaboration

    privacy domain knowledge

Timeline

Engineer Leader at Privacy Product

TikTok
10.2022 - Current

Staff Software Engineer

Meta
02.2017 - 09.2022

Software Developing Engineer

Amazon AWS
02.2015 - 02.2017

University of Texas At Austin

Master of Science from Electrical And Computing Engineering

Chinese Academy of Science

Master of Science from Optical Engineering

Zhejiang University

Bachelor of Science from Physics
Liang Zhu