# Aaron Z

> Staff Software Engineer @ Meta

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronz

AI Engineer & Tech Lead. I operate as the "fixer" for the organization's most intractable technical problems. Combining a hacker’s mindset with enterprise-scale execution, I specialize in resolving complex zero-day challenges across GenAI safety, security, privacy, and red teaming. Proven track record as a TL directing multi-year, multi-team initiatives to build foundational infrastructure. Deeply hands-on and obsessed with AI-accelerated engineering (currently a Top 100 Claude Code user at Meta).

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2020 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
Tech Lead, Monetization GenAI Safety (2025–Present)
Building the GenAI Safety Foundation for the Ads Creatives and Business AI Agents product lines. Architecting core integrity systems (framework, classification, measurement, harm discovery). Leading red teaming and adversarial benchmarking to define safety launch bars and processes. Driving technical compliance for Foreign State Narrative Bias and India AI regulations.

Tech Lead, VR Privacy (2022–2024)
Built the privacy foundation for the Quest product line. Directed technical compliance (GDPR, DMA, COPPA), architecting purpose limitation and data governance across 10K+ tables. Led Horizon OS (Android) permission and multi-user architecture.

Tech Lead, Commerce Data Foundation (2020–2021)
Led compliance and external metrics quality initiatives.

### Senior Product Manager @ Tencent
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Shenzhen, Guangdong, China
Product Manager, Tencent Serverless Cloud Functions
Reverse-engineered industry-leading cloud architectures (AWS, GCP) to design core serverless features. Directed product execution across multiple engineering teams.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Alibaba Group
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

### Software Analyst I/II @ Genesys
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Waterloo

### Bachelor's degree in Statistics
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaron-z-025122210

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Last updated: 2026-04-12