# Billy Zhu

> Mojo Compiler Engineer @ Modular

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

## Work Experience
### Compiler Engineer @ Modular
Jan 2023 – Present
Modular is the next-generation AI developer platform unifying the development and deployment of AI for the world.
The next generation of product breakthroughs will be powered by production quality infrastructure that brings together the best of compilers and runtimes, is designed for heterogeneous compute, edge to datacenter distribution, and is focused on usability. Unifying software and hardware with a "just works" approach that will save developers enormous time and increase their velocity.
We are incredibly excited about the mission before us, backed by some of the best investors in the world and if you are interested in joining us - just reach out via www.modular.com/careers.

### Principal Software Engineer @ SambaNova Systems
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Compiler for SambaNova's reconfigurable dataflow chip.

### Teaching Assistant for 15-411/611 Compiler Design @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Software Engineer @ Autolab
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Carnegie Mellon University
An open source online course management and autograding service. Used by most programming courses at Carnegie Mellon, covering over 5000 students.
• Worked on the Ruby on Rails backend and the frontend interface
• Handled bug reports and issued hot-fixes for production systems
• Designed and implemented an OAuth2 API and a first-party CLI client

### Software Developer Intern @ Hulu
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
• Implemented features to improve robustness and usability of the WebKit-based platform that powers Hulu's app on living room devices

### Undergrad Researcher @ Personal Robotics Lab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Carnegie Mellon University
• Developed a robot tele-operating program for a research project exploring human-robot collaboration, and conducted subsequent user studies
• Created a web based graphical interface (Python backend) for commanding a food-feeding routine for Ada, the lab Kinova arm

### Software Engineering Intern @ CloudMinds Technologies
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Created ROS packages (with Python and C++) for controlling and monitoring the Arduino-based 7bot robot arm and the ABB Yumi
• Collaborated with team at UC Berkeley to integrate Dexterity-Net (smart grasping algoirthm) into robot controllers


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### High School
Beijing National Day School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/billyzhu
- GitHub: https://github.com/zyx-billy
- Portfolio: http://billyzhu.com

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Last updated: 2026-04-11