# Wilson Zhang

> Staff Software Engineer at Meta

Location: New York City Metropolitan Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/wilsonzhang

Software Engineer @ Meta. Duke Grad.
I solve problems.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Threads
Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area
ML Tech lead on Threads Notification Relevance Team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York City Metropolitan Area
Tech lead on improving Reels recommendation system through content retrieval.

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area

### Research Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
Research Assistant under Prof. Jeffrey Chase on distributed systems.
Research Assistant under Prof. Cynthia Rudin on deep learning.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ Duke University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Durham, NC
Undergraduate Teaching Assistant for 
CompSci 201 - Data Structures and Algorithms
CompSci 310 - Introduction to OS
CompSci 316 - Introduction to Databases
CompSci 330 - Algorithm design and analysis 
CompSci 371 - Machine Learning

### Software Engineering Intern @ Instagram
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Intern on the Well-being AI Team working on content understanding and content moderation. CV + ML.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area
Worked on next-generation HDFS cluster management systems.

### Research Engineering Intern @ DiDi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science, Minor in Statistics
Duke University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-01