# Yufan Zhao > Builder | Backend Engineer | ML Engineer | Vibe Coding Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yufanzhao I join Hackathons and like new idea and do research ## Work Experience ### Researcher Scientist (Machine Learning) @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present facebook ranking system ### Machine Learning Researcher @ UC Irvine Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences Jan 2024 – Present | Irvine, CA ML researcher ### Researcher @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Seattle, WA Design and maintain distributed systems for large-scale training and inference. ### Senior Researcher @ bilibili Group Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | United States IPOed in 2018, the Chinese equivalent YouTube I built a short-video platform(like Tiktok), a cooperative editing platform, and a mobile editing app (like Inshot) ### Associate Researcher @ Dell EMC Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | United States distributed file system, core infrastructure ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science UC Irvine ### Bachelor of Engineering - BE in Computer Science and Technology Jinan University ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yufan-john-zhao --- Source: https://flows.cv/yufanzhao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yufanzhao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22