# Steve Z.

> Software Engineer (LLM / AI Agent) | ex-Meta, AI startup | Backend, Full-Stack, Machine Learning, Distributed System

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

I’m a Software Engineer generalist with hands-on experience bridging software development and generative AI, passionate about tackling tough challenges and constantly growing.

My recent achievements:
 - Developed a Video AI Agent from 0 to 1, enabling real-time, flexible video analysis for diverse use cases — this project was showcased at CES 26.
- Also proposed and developed a Evaluation framework that measure the Eval metrix for more insights and drive decision-making.
 - Built a distributed ML Platform from the ground up that significantly improved machine learning engineers' productivity by simplifying infrastructure management, allowing MLEs' to focus on algorithms instead of heavy engineering workloads.

I am always eager to learn new technologies and collaborate with talented teams to deliver high-quality results.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Kneron
Jan 2023 – Present | San Diego, California, United States
Generative-AI, LLMs, VLMs, video-to-text
Computer Vision, Multimodal Technologies
Distributed ML Platform at scale

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
Instagram Camera Creation
Topic: Back-End/Full-Stack Development

- Progressed User-Exp: Accelerated  Auto-Created-Reels and upgraded clips' quality by developing Server Side Sound Sync Algorithms.
- Increased developing-efficiency by building Sound Sync Debugger Tool which improved IG Reels media trimming algorithm quality.
- Advanced versatility and flexibility of Server Side Auto-Created-Reels by extending functionalities.
- Contributed Wikis for Sound Sync Debugger Tool, Story Highlights Preview Tool, and Server Sider Sound Sync.

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Tencent
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Shanghai, China
Tencent is the world's largest video game vendor, as well as one of the most financially valuable companies.

Topic: Back-End Development
Skills: Golang, Linux, Git, MySQL, Shell, HTTP, curl, JSON, ElasticSearch, ClickHouse

Algorithms Services Proxy Framework
-Established ElasticSearch data proxy service implementing read & write for HTTP requests. Tested data proxy service by querying data via ElasticSearch statement and sending HTTP requests via curl.  
-Implemented synchronization of Teams & Games tags from old-tags-system or JSON string in to new-tags-system among League of Legends(LOL), League of Legends Mobile, and Teamfight Tactics via MySQL.
-Designed new APIs for operation platform to filter tree-storage tags' visibility depended on various scenarios, businesses, and root tags, adopting idea of DFS.
-Reduced over 90% database access by setting up cache servers utilizing Go’s concurrency advantages..

Content Pool System
-Responsible for building entire BI(business intelligence)-platform services connecting with ClickHouse proxy service and handling front-end HTTP requests for getting useful information from billions rows of data. Designed interfaces protocols(fields as request & response parameters) specifications to meet new product requirements.
-Connecting interface protocol between Front-End and DataBase.
-Conducted load throttling(QPS-limit), SQL injection prevention, errors & slow queries logs,  logical design & data-cleansing, exception handling, files downloading, etc. 
-Collaborating with front-end engineers to debug on Operation Development Platform(automatic deployment).

### Software Engineer @ douban
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Beijing, China
Douban is the 6th most popular social media website in China.

Topic: Back-End Development
Skills: Python, Go, Linux, Git, MySQL, Shell, Kafka, flask，Debug, DAE(PaaS)

-Collected verified-authors' preference information via RPC and MySQL multi-column indexes and sent it to operation department.
-Optimized Python script by amortizing RPC calls to avoid high concurrency, reduced running time by 40%. Analyzed logs via shell commands. 
-Fixed page for thing & game 404 bugs in https://m.douban.com/.  Found problems via python debugger, web debugger according to web framework. Test changes on DAE(Douban App Engine)(a PaaS). Finally, my modification was merged onto the project.
-Added ‘inserting games’ as new features in note-create. Appended `episodes information` for films & TV shows.
-Collected top 1000 popular celebrities' birth & death for memorial calendar to support product department.
-Optimize performance of slow query of black-list by restructuring MySQL table(adding fields, query time reduced from 3000ms to 200ms.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Stevens Institute of Technology
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Communication Engineering
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Communication Engineer
University of Glasgow
Jan 2016 – Jan 2020

### High School in Science
广州中学
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016

### Junior school student
Secondary school affiliated to Jinan University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/stevez
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/stevez/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-22