# Mandy Zi

> Software Engineer at Meta

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
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### Research Assistant @ Harvard University
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
- present a new natural language processing approach to time series forecasting by using a combination of bilinear projection and self-attention mechanism to learn complex patterns and dynamic information from time series data
- develop a generalized language model that could be used for univariate and multivariate time series data across various possible domains that are not just language data, specifically focusing on financial and astronomical time series data
- propose a possible pipeline of confidence measures to improve the usefulness of the language model by deriving confidence interval using Bayesian inference

### Software Engineer Intern @ Rubrik, Inc.
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Palo Alto, California, United States
•	Redesigned Microsoft O365 cloud backup storage layer to provision multiple storage accounts for big customers, and rescaled cluster from supporting 30k users to 500k users
•	Implemented load-balancing strategy for Azure storage backup users, improving storage limit from 550 TB to 200k TB
•	Designed storage sharding product design document in a team of 6 people, and collaborated across two teams
•	Skills used: Go, SQL, MySQL database, Microsoft Azure, grpc

### Quantitative Algorithmic Intern @ Data Innovation Labs
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | United States

### Research Assistant @ Vanderbilt University AIVAS Lab
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Nashville, Tennessee, United States
• Investigated interaction and gaze patterns of 65 students on the spectrum engaging in an existing, science-oriented education technology using Python
• Collected a video Q&A dataset with 400 social content and developed related research questions
• Developed a multi-agent computational cognitive model of theory of mind reasoning as the primary data researcher and team leader; used PySWIP to write the production system built on the model
• Designed an education application that provides visual scaffolds for students to improve their theory of mind reasoning skills using gamification and user-centered software design in a team of 5 people; successfully tested on 150 middle school students

### Financial Analyst Intern @ Zheda Insigma Group Co., Ltd.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
• Collected and classified the company’s financial data from 2016-2017 for evaluating the investment opportunities in the agriculture of Shandong province
• Prepared one agricultural project’s budget with two team members; calculated and visualized the risk and return of the previous investment projects from the previous year to analyze the past performance

### Student Ambassador @ Ruffalo Noel Levitz
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
•	Help raise money for scholarships and financial aid; develop highly transferrable skills in non-profit fundraising, communications and business
•	Connect with successful alumni, parents, and friends of the University

### Software Engineer Internship @ Dareway Software Co.,ltd.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Jinan, Shandong, China
• Created websites for human resources and social security department of Changxing county government
using HTML and CSS
• Wrote dynamic functions under company’s framework for business HR system using JSP
• Learned to use JS and JQuery to achieve part of the team project related to storing and accessing data
• Understood and practiced basic operations related to Oracle and SQL


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computational Science and Engineering
Harvard University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Mathematics and Computer Science
Vanderbilt University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Shandong Experimental High School
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Statistics in Anthropology
Yale University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22