# Daniel Zhang

> Senior Software Engineer II at Roblox

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/danielzhang4

Machine Learning and Backend Software Engineer on the Creator Services Natural Language Processing Team at Roblox. Recent Stanford (MS CS c/o 2023) and Berkeley (BA CS c/o 2020) graduate. Former SWE Intern at GoDaddy and Wish, and former Undergraduate Student Instructor at UC Berkeley for CS 186 and CS 61C.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer II @ Roblox
Jan 2025 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
Machine Learning and backend engineer on the Creator Services Translation team at Roblox.

### Software Engineer II @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Mateo, California, United States

### Undergraduate Student Researcher @ Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Worked under the direction of graduate student Theophile Cabannes and Prof. Alexandre Bayen on simulating and studying the effects of selfish routing from mobile traffic apps on resident mobility in the Mission San Jose neighborhood of Fremont, CA.

### Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences (EECS)
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California
Teach weekly discussion sections of 30+ students reviewing concepts introduced in lecture. Lead and organize office hours to answer students' conceptual questions. Run laboratory sections teaching students principles of C coding, assembly language, and computer architecture. Grade and proctor course exams for rooms of 300+ students.

### Software Engineering Intern @ GoDaddy
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California
Migrated and refactored pipeline for TLD zone file processing from on-site Hadoop to Amazon AWS, making it 35% faster and more fault tolerant. Designed new data pipeline with Apache Pig to generate statistics on customer leakage to rival domain registrars and analyze company competitiveness. Wrote and integrated a domain availability checker for .uk domains with existing domain look-up code in Java, improving company reach in British markets.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Wish
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco, California
Constructed new referral landing page using ReactJS and Redux that increased new user conversion rates. Ported new daily login bonus feature to web app in order to incentivize continued shopping on site. Expanded support cases for automated customer support help bot, decreasing support ticket creation.

### Engineering Intern @ ProLabs.com
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Clara, California
Assembled Python programs using the Flask framework to automate internal company functions resulting in a 70% savings in time. Designed an efficient MySQL database structure to handle the processing of 10,000 queries from clients daily.

### Summer Research Intern @ University of Florida
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Gainesville, Florida
Used the Java3D Library to visualize datasets generated from diffusion MRI scans of water movement in the brain tissue of rats. Studied techniques used in the medical imaging field to render diffusion tensor images and generate orientation density functions.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Stanford University

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### High School Diploma
Fremont High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/daniel-y-zhang
- Portfolio: http://daniel-zhang.me

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Last updated: 2026-03-31