# Rulan Zheng

> Investing | Product Design | Ex-Bytedance

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

## Work Experience
### Product @ Arros AI
Jan 2026 – Present

### Investor @ Eastlink Capital
Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Product @ OpenJobs AI
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Product @ ByteDance
Jan 2020 – Jan 2024
Led the design and implementation of BytePlus and ByteHouse
https://www.byteplus.com/

### Product Designer @ Guidewire Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area
NYSE: GWRE
• Led the design of multiple BI platforms (CDP, Explore, Rating, INow, Datahub, etc).
• Transformed all stakeholders’ visions into user flows and complete prototypes for iteration.
• Implemented interview scripts and user surveys. 
• Conducted user interviews. Present reports to stakeholders based on the data gathered from 1:1 interviews, surveys, and user testing.
• Collaborated with product managers and engineers to refine product roadmap, balancing between technical debt and feature velocity while prioritizing effectively.
• Worked with other designers on establishing Guidewire’s design system Jutro, including
color palettes, fonts, custom icons, custom components, and a centralized style guide.
• Delivered minimum viable demo design to senior executives for Guidewire Connections.

### Product Manager Consultant @ UW Health
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
• Collaborated with a team of researchers, doctors, and engineers to create a new electronic
health record system to increase patient safety and enhance the overall healthcare experience.
• Defined the user persona, sitemap, user flow from interviews and data analysis.
• Conducted requirements-gathering interviews, designed and implemented user surveys.
• Successfully turned visions into concepts, designed features, and delivered pixel-perfect
mockups through Sketch and Justinmind to engineering team.

### Computer Science Tutor @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Madison, Wisconsin Area
Tutor for cs200, cs300, cs/ece252

### Scratch Club Leader @ University of Wisconsin-Madison
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Madison, Wisconsin, United States
Led cs402 Scratch club for K12 STEM education (Spring 2015, Spring 2018)

### Front-end Developer Intern @ The Practice Worldwide
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
• Designed and implemented a dynamic single-paged website, using Facebook, Google Map,
and YouTube API to retrieve live social media feeds and create interactive user experience.
• Created the responsive design that could be served to desktop, tablets and mobile users.
• Used React and Google Firebase to build the website which was launched live in August.

### Founder & Developer @ TwinkleOn
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
• An iOS app that works as a platform to connect people with local retailers who are in poverty (Farmers' Market 's Live Map)
• Conducted over 150 market surveys to identify needs from both local retailers and customers
• Planned and founded TwinkleOn Project, established short term and long term strategies
• Built iOS application in Objective-C, used Facebook, Google Map, Insta-gram and Wechat API to retrieve live social media feeds and create interactive user experience; Fixed bugs and updated features for iOS app with internal testers


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Wisconsin-Madison


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-13