# Yingzhe (Danny) Dong

> SWE @ Meta, WhatsApp Database | Ex-SWE @ TikTok

Location: United States, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yingzhe

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States
WhatsApp infra
Working on a distributed in-memory database

### Software Engineer @ WhatsApp
Jan 2024 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | San Jose, California, United States
Ads Creative & Ecosystem
• Worked on the Monetization Creative team, developing video audit workflows and infrastructure using Go.
• Added video appeal features to the audit flow using Eventbus async pipeline, increasing approval rate by 7%.
• Introduced music copyright detection to drive companies to join the platform, boosting revenue by $100M+.
• Built a search pipeline with Elasticsearch handling 400+ QPS, migrating data via RocketMQ and Lambda.
• Optimized 10TB+ asset library by reindexing Elasticsearch, enhancing binlog pipeline, reducing latency by 10%.

### Software Engineer @ Yahoo
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | United States
Platform infra - Anti-Abuse
• Worked on the Anti-Abuse team for HTTP traffic protection against malicious users using C++ and Lua.
• Migrated our product to cloud by Kubernetes on AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service, reducing 20% latency.
• Applied Java, Python, and wrk2 to add multi-AZ performance and failover test suites to SafeT-AWS test bed.
• Developed an application to monitor cluster and safeT configuration changes, storing them in Redis database.
• Utilized Screwdriver to build CI/CD pipelines, enhancing web application firewall and rate limiter efficiencies.

### Machine Learning Engineer @ OPPO
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Beijing, China
AI infra
• Worked on the Artificial Intelligence Infra team, responsible for deploying and inferring models using C++.
• Created a face detection software module and integrated it into computer vision SDK, with 100+ calls per day.
• Applied MNN and SNPE engines to deploy models on CPU and DSP chips on the ARM architecture.
• Developed tools with custom model quantization and operator introduction functions employing Flatbuffers.
• Built a functional software module that can fuse multiple TFLite Graphs, reducing 60% message transfer time.

### Data Analyst @ Kuaishou Technology
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Beijing, China
• Set up a department data center from 0 to 1; drove and led the data reform and innovation.
• Utilized SQL to retrieve data from Hive table and completed over 1,500 SQL queries.
• Devised a visual data dashboard and a departmental data warehouse, decreasing data-querying time by 70%.
• Upgraded analytics tools by adding sensitive video title capture function using Python, serving over 2,000 users.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
Boston University

### Bachelor's degree
Northeastern University (CN)


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/yingzhe
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yingzhe/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11