# Ling Zhang

> Staff Software Engineer at Twitter

Location: London, England, United Kingdom
Profile: https://flows.cv/lingzhang

Early startup engineer at Aiden.ai. Have both serious and playful experience in deep learning, natural language processing, speech recognition, statistical analysis and functional programming. Also has spent many long nights debugging web and mobile products. Occasional conference speaker.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | London, United Kingdom

### Senior Software Engineer @ Twitter
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022 | London, England, United Kingdom

### Software Engineer @ aiden.ai
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | London, United Kingdom
- Product was acquired by Twitter, to become part of their self serve ads product.
- Longest serving engineer at startup, second engineering employee, joined during pre-seed.
- Helped take aiden.ai from idea to market. Also helped grow the aiden.ai team to 10+. Designed the technical hiring tests, and interviewed 60+ engineering candidates.
- Technical lead, authored the technical specs for several core services including ETL data pipeline, query execution service, the Aiden query language, and our external service gateways.  
- Introduced engineering team to a functional programming paradigm, along with algebraic data type manipulation, and use of simple monad patterns. The perceived value from this is that it made our code resilient to common categories of bugs, promoted highly re-usable functional components, and made the code easy to adapt to the rapidly changing requirements in a startup. It also was highly opinionated, so it provided a clear style guide, and coding convention amongst developers, leading to faster development time, and easier code reviews.
- Developed the company's coding style guides, engineering design conventions, ticket workflow, and code review processes.

### Entrepeneur in Residence @ Entrepreneur First
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | London, United Kingdom
- Part of EF8 Cohort in this startup incubator
- Spent 6 months doing business development and prototyping on various startup ideas including:
  - Natural language to SQL data analysis
  - SAAS voice recognition telephone booking system
  - Slack for voice, for operations in security, movie sets, etc.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Abu Dhabi

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Forward Deployed Engineer Intern @ Palantir Technologies
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Palo Alto


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Computer Science
New York University Abu Dhabi


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/ling-zhang-2a88025b

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Last updated: 2026-03-30