# Lin Zhong > Come join us to help people build connection around content in Feed with MetaAI, influencing experience of billions! We are hiring ML engineer. Location: London, England, United Kingdom Profile: https://flows.cv/linzhong Throughout my career, I have taken various leadership roles in Meta, Amazon, Microsoft as well as startup working across different industries from traditional platform to ML and continuous delivery infra. I have demonstrated consistent success in building/scale engineer team from scratch to mature phase, leading through complex challenges, as well as delivering and evolving timely in different environment ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer Manager @ Meta Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States Engineer leader to help people elevate their creativity and expression to deepen the real world connection using MetaAI. ### Software Engineer Manager @ Meta Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | London, England, United Kingdom - Built and scaled the first London team for Facebook Smart Glasses from scratch and led the performance-driven team. (of size >15 and growing within a year) - London site lead to build SG London site: scale it to 4 team across 3 pillars (Platform, AI, Experience Eng) in 1 year ### Software Engineer Manager @ Meta Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Redmond, Washington, United States • Defined clear strategy, direction and mission for the newly formed Assistant Data and ML Platform team; graduated the team to platform + product with clear product vision of Assistant Model Factory. • Identified opportunities to share technology across teams and manage partnership opportunity with cross-functional partners. • Led the team to propose, design and ship Assistant Model Factory as unified assistant model building services and experience E2E and extend the product user base from Assistant to Facebook Reality Lab. • Recruit, support and grow the engineer team to 9 FTE + 4 CW in both Redmond and MPK with healthy, open team culture. ### Software Development Manager @ Amazon Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Greater Seattle Area • Defined technical strategy and direction as first engineer in the team. Successfully drove the business adoption of big data technology in both science experiments and model production pipeline. Developed and released the initial automated data pipeline for TAM (Title Attribution Model) project; led the team for multiple high impact model automation pipeline development. (Title Attribution Model/ Customer Engagement Ranking Model/Content Exhaustion Models /Prime Structural Demand Model etc.) • Built the high perf eng team from scratch as the only engineer to a team of size 12 with mature practice and stable structure (senior TL, engineer manager and clear long term roadmap in place) as well as open and sharing culture. Successfully grew individual experienced engineer to senior level and management role. • Created team vision, direction and tech strategy; defined and aligned business ownership between engineer team and science/customer partner teams as well as within engineer team; developed and successfully drove team adoption of engineer/operation excellence and planning best practice. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Amazon Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Applause Jan 2014 – Jan 2016 • Independently designed, developed, and released Analyst Corner offer of Applause Analytics in full stack, including business value discovery, feature work flow and user experience design & custom visit, backend and front end design & development, as well as release trainings. • Collaborated with other ~10 engineers to make Applause Analytics as one of the key software solution for mobile app review analysis solution. Was the engineer and the product manager. • Innovatively designed and developed crowd tester selection framework and crowd test community management tools, which ended up to be part of the core backend of testing service platform and critical delivery opreation standard. • Designed and developed machine learning model evaluation pipeline. ### Senior Lead Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 Cloud Infrastructure Development for Azure Software Load Balancer(SLB) 2013 –2014 • Defined release criteria and test strategy; drove availability and reliability improvement by extending the test framework and test coverage as well as developing engineering practice; defined, designed and developed system for product KPI live site monitoring. • Built, grew and led 1 vendor and 4 fulltime engineer team. • Owned product quality of SLB release and LB engine of cross team integrated fabric release. Improved quality from 9 product hotfix in one SLB release to <=1 hotfix of the following releases after I joined. Shipped 4+ Major SLB releases • Drove and coordinated cross team delivery of multiple core feature in all phases of the live cycle – including scoping, designing, testing, monitoring and live site maintenance. Deliveries involved multiple product teams across Azure. Cloud Infrastructure Development for Windows Azure Traffic Manager(WATM) 2012-2013 • Owned product quality of major re-architected WATM release and the subsequence minor releases before its Global Availability with no high severity live site of the releases owned. • Defined release criteria and test strategy, identified test gaps and extended the test framework, managed and optimized test resources, promoted remote team engineer practice and team development. • Collaborated with multiple teams globally (Ireland, China and US) and lead remote team of 3 vendor and 3 FTE with half of test team located overseas in Ireland and China Cloud Infrastructure Development for Global Traffic Manager(GTM) 2012 –2012 • Designed and built test infrastructure and test automation using C#, technical lead and managed test team of 3 vendor and 1 full time. • Drove project transition from Azure to GNS, including test team headcount transition of 2 vendors. ### Senior Software Engineer @ Microsoft Jan 2005 – Jan 2012 Cloud Physical Network Re-architecture for Azure 2011-2012 • Developed model base data driven automation test framework and shipped Top of Rack configuration automation using C# • Designed and developed test automation platform and tools using shell, C#, C++ for 10G physical network re-architected infrastructure from networking layer with collaboration with GNS, hardware vendors, Fabric and many other Azure teams. Search Result Relevance Testing for Bing 2009 – 2011 • Gold Star Award winner 2010 • Defined, developed and executed release criteria, testing strategy for core relevance and answer relevance feature test, spurious test and perf/stress test. • Designed and developed multiple tools for NetSignOff (for neural net submission and quality sign off in global markets), < 24 hours live site monitoring framework for answer ranking and answer partners etc. using SQL, ASP .net and C# by technically leading other full times and vendors Windows application development for Windows Network Monitor (Netmon) 2005 – 2009 • Gold Star Award winner 2007, Engineer Excellent Award winner 2008 • Designed and developed test strategy, test framework and test automation for netmon NDIS lightweight filter driver, capture engine, parser engine and parser language. • Built and managed the outsource engine test team and parser validation test team of 10 members in Shanghai • Served as Floor Captain of the work environment. • Actively involved in the agile development process establishment, and drove monthly releases (5+ releases) ## Education ### Dartmouth College ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Sun Yat-sen University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lin-zhong-243a455 --- Source: https://flows.cv/linzhong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/linzhong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-05