# Fred Zhao

> Engineering the future of B2B post-sales at Pylon

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/fredzhao

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Pylon
Jan 2025 – Present
We're building the best post-sales platform for the next generation of B2B companies. Check out our product at usepylon.com and we're hiring!

### Software Engineering Manager @ Airtable
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025
I tried my best to reduce rather than incur decision fatigue for my teammates, so that we could all more effectively contribute to Airtable's mission to democratize software creation.

Enterprise Pillar, Large Deployments: enable 100k+ seat wall-to-wall rollout, ensure data governance restrictions in both intra-tenant and external sharing scenarios. https://support.airtable.com/v1/docs/enterprise-hub-guide

Foundations Pillar, Attachments: roll out in-house file upload stack for secure attachments infrastructure. https://support.airtable.com/v1/docs/airtable-attachment-url-behavior

Platform Pillar, API: replaced insecure user-level API keys with a host of secure alternatives: Personal Access Tokens, OAuth integrations, and service accounts. https://airtable.com/developers/web/guides/oauth-integrations

### Software Engineer @ Airtable
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2012 – Jan 2020
I worked on the Recruiting Products team at Facebook in the Discover pillar, which focused on sourcing workflows. Would YOU have been in my target audience? 🤔

Before this, I worked on another internal team that built tools to increase my coworkers' effectiveness in working and communicating together.

Before that, I worked on a product infrastructure team that enabled other engineers to move faster, in the space of products that give people the power to share.

Overall, I enjoy understanding software systems and improving them to scale organizationally as they grow and change over time.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Caltech
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
• CS144: Ideas Behind the Web
• CS121: Introduction to Relational Databases
• CS24: Introduction to Computing Systems
• CS2: Introduction to Programming Methods

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
• Improve admin tools for Deals and Pages
• Implement EXIF-based Place Suggestion for uploaded photos

### Summer Undergraduate Research Fellow @ California Institute of Technology
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
• Model blade-level energy usage in data center servers
• Design and test network experiments to induce dynamic usage range across server components

### Programmer @ California Institute of Technology
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009
• Develop networked game applications upon existing platforms
• Work with team of researchers and other programmers in design of GUI and game logic for new experiments

### Counter Ops Agent @ Best Buy Geek Squad
Jan 2007 – Jan 2008
• Diagnose and repair computer hardware and software issues


## Education
### B.S. in Computer Science
Caltech

### Drake University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/frdzy
- Portfolio: http://fb.me/frdzy

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Source: https://flows.cv/fredzhao
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Last updated: 2026-04-10