# Michael Zhao

> Software Engineer @ Numeric

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaelzhao

I'm an senior software engineer and tech lead of the Search Infrastructure team at Asana!

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Numeric
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead @ Asana
Jan 2018 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Technical Lead for the Search Infrastructure team that maintains AWS OpenSearch/ElasticSearch Service infrastructure, manages real-time highly scalable indexing pipelines, and provides consultation for product teams creating features depending on our data
• Matured AI embedding infrastructure by systematically evaluating vector databases / embedding models and building highly scalable embedding computation and indexing pipelines
• Designed and led safe migration to new system for data model migrations that mitigated throughput bottlenecks and maximized safe utilization of our compute resources
• Authored multiple architectural design documents, mentored several junior engineers, managed an intern, and was oncall in a low SLA rotation

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Mountain View, CA
• Collected performance data on Android Google Mobile Maps and conducted exploratory data analysis and feature selection for automatic detection of startup time regressions
• Tested machine learning models and built a pipeline for prediction of startup time regressions
• Developed a diagnostics tool that compares run metrics and provides statistical analyses and machine learning predictions useful for detecting and debugging startup time regressions

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
• Designed and implemented the frontend functionality, end-to-end routing, and backend API handling for a mobile version of Youtube Video Quality Report. Developed a lightweight fallback solution for unsupported browsers that still retains most of the functionality and maximizes code reuse
• Fully involved in the software development life cycle from requirement collection to design to implementation to testing, including intricate decisions made regarding privacy concerns with user data and partner relationships
• Used Polymer and Web Components, TypeScript, Python (Webapp 2), BUILD, HTML, Piper (Perforce)

### Software Engineering Intern @ Cisco
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Boxborough, MA
• Designed an easy-to-navigate software/hardware compatibility tool to replace the original verbose, multi-page compatibility matrix wiki for a major Cisco Collaboration Technology Group product. The tool provides information on-demand, contains a database backend, and offers an administrative interface for updating
• Learned how to apply new technologies to create a web application from end to end, understand initial requirements, design and implement the overall framework (frontend web application, backend web service, database server, and configuration), and perform unit tests and end-to-end tests
• Implemented the tool using JavaScript MEAN stack (MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, NodeJS), HTML, CSS

### Software Intern @ Northrop Grumman Corporation
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Diego, CA
•	Updated front end and refined back-end of a web application to provide additional information
•	Tested scalability using JMeter for load tests 
•	Used Java, Persistence and REST APIs, (x)HTML

### Visiting Student @ Los Alamos National Laboratory
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Los Alamos, NM
•	Updated information and refined webpage for the Theoretical Division - http://t2.lanl.gov/
•	Ran and analyzed astrophysics simulations using Python

### Summer Camp and Technology Intern @ San Diego Supercomputer Center
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Diego, CA
•	Developed an iOS application to provide information about SDSC’s summer class offerings
•	Assisted teachers during classes introducing programming to younger students


## Education
### Master of Engineering - MEng in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley

### Westview High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michael-zhao-1b328ba4

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Last updated: 2026-04-05