# Youdong Zhang > Software Engineer at Meta Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/youdong I enjoy working on innovative products. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Present | Greater Seattle Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Quip Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California Granular Sharing: worked on UI to control granularity of sharing model in iOS Salesforce Anywhere: built a number of key features around Alerts, Actions, Chat improvements in iOS: editable messages, per message actions, Threaded Replies, Shared Media Navigation: worked on improving organization in the favorite bar, React and iOS Document: worked on an interactive document outline, add font colors to Quip Docs, React ### Mentor @ Breakout Mentors Jan 2015 – Jan 2019 | Berkeley Taught computer science to middle school girls, general and object-oriented programming to students in a one-on-one setting, implementing projects as such as Snake (Python), Hangman (Python), BreakOut (JAVA awt), personal websites, and android app storage using Google FusionTables. Pair programmed and explained concepts such as for loop, recursion, string manipulation, and list manipulation ### Software Engineer Intern @ Facebook Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park - Smart Notification: worked on features to convert data center notifications as internal notifications, where all involved entities could be acted on directly within the notification, where racks could be commented on, and owned by specific employees. Made using React and Hack - Improved original tool to have an estimated 30% more internal user interaction ### Software Developer Intern @ Google Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Montreal, Canada Area - Wrote a module to find when Chrome's crash rates spike by use of Timeseries models and alerting on critical findings in Python andSQL - Reduced the reaction time between when a serious abnormality occurs and when the alert is triggered by at least 24 hours, leading to faster reaction time of at least 36 hours ### Research Assistant @ Berkeley Nuclear Engineering Department (Slaybaugh Lab) Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 ### Software Engineering Intern @ Amyris Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 - Built an Elasticsearch instance for 4 of Amyris’ major databases by rapidly bulk loading data with Python and keeping indexes updated using cron jobs - Wrote front-end code to incorporate search functionality into existing webpages using React - Increased search speed by 5 to 10 times compared to the existing search tool ### Research Assistant @ Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS) Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Berkeley Research pertains to building a classifier using machine learning to parse images and twitter data taken around the time of protests to determine the level of potential violence and violent sentiments ### Software Engineer Intern @ DreamFunded.com Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | San Francisco Bay Area - Implemented a complete Ruby on Rails investment platform for DreamFunded from scratch, over 70% done by me - Resulted in our company being interviewed on CNBC and featured on several websites profiling and discussing notable startups - Website allows users to sign up, log in, browse active investment details, invest, and track personal portfolio - finished work continues to be the backbone of the company’s portal, amassing thousands of dollars in funding for tech startups and for DreamFunded itself too ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, French minor University of California, Berkeley Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ### High School Issaquah High School Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/youdong-zhang --- Source: https://flows.cv/youdong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/youdong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22