# Michelle Zhou

> Software Engineer

Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michellezhou1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ LTK
Jan 2025 – Present
Implemented end-to-end features across React and Go services to streamline brand workflows, enabling brands to more easily browse and discover creators and manage campaigns

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2019 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Built React panel apps for the Oculus virtual reality headset, increasing user engagement through features such as a fitness tracker and gamified leaderboards. Created and improved Instagram shopping destinations to allow users to browse products, view personalized recommendations, and track historical activity. Partnered with user experience researchers and designers to build Instagram commerce notifications to enhance users’ shopping journeys, improving the rate of conversion to transaction. Optimized Instagram ad signals, placements, and formats to display more valuable ads to users, boosting advertiser return on ad spend.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park, CA
Collaborated with the Profile Dating team to bring Facebook Dating to Facebook Lite, expanding access to low-bandwidth markets.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Workday
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Pleasanton, California
Open-sourced Workday’s encryption plug-in for Elasticsearch using Java and Scala to help other companies secure sensitive data at scale.

### Software Engineer Intern @ NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Pasadena, California
Built a dynamic internal search tool leveraging Elasticsearch, enabling fast and accurate retrieval of internal records. Developed an administration console using Node.js and AngularJS that allowed users to highlight search results, improving search relevance.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
Cornell University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/michelle-y-zhou

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Last updated: 2026-04-13