# Jia Zhao

> Staff Software Engineer at Airbnb

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jiazhao

System Design, Recommendations, Ranking, Large Scale Data Processing, Big Data, Machine Learning

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2017 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Search Backend - Tech Lead Manager, Staff Software Engineer
  - Airbnb Search Platform
  - Airbnb Embedding Platform
  - Simplified Pricing and Availability in Search Infrastructure
  - Doc Server for Search Feed Hydration

Payments Billing Platform
  - Luxury Retreats Integration with Payments
  - Payout
  - Credit service

### Software Engineer @ Pinterest
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Discovery team
 - Commerce Recommendations (shoppable pins recommendations on Related Pins feed)
 - Video Recommendations

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Google Analytics
 - Related Products Recommendations for all e-commerce websites using Google Analytics
 - Large scale data processing pipelines
 - Query engine

### Graduate Teaching Assistant @ Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
CS4641 Machine Learning, Spring 2012
CS6740/CS7641 Computational Data Analysis, Summer 2012
CS7646/QCF7646 Machine Learning for Trading, Fall 2012


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Bachelor's Degree in Information Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University

### High School Diploma
The High School Attached to Hunan Normal University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jbamboo

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Last updated: 2026-04-12