# Zhiwei Zhao

> RL and LLM training at Fireworks.ai | ex Meta Super Intelligence Lab

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

Building Next-Gen Training & Agentic RL Infra with inference focused co-design

## Work Experience
### Software engineer @ Fireworks AI
Jan 2025 – Present
RL,LLM training, inference codesign and some Research

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Meta Super Intelligence Lab, Tech lead in LLM inference
Work on ads model serving, LLM, MultiModal(image,video,full duplex speech), speculative decoding and GenAI Model Inference

### Senior Software Engineer @ WePay
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020
Design and implement distributed job management system, contribute to airflow.

### Software Engineer @ WePay
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019
Worked as project tech lead, design new service and complete new integration

### Member of Technical Staff @ shopkick
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017
Server Engineer, do work in python and also do some work with kafka, spark and hive, as well as some front end work

### TA of EEC 195A @ UC Davis
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014

### Software Engineering Intern @ Chirp Microsystems, Inc.
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Berkeley
Built real-time display,51000 pixels/frame from gesture sensor with C++, OpenGL and QT, on MAC and Windows 
Implemented algorithm for target tracking and recorded the route. Completed simple gesture recognition.
Established the TCP/IP architecture of network for sharing data, managed version control with SVN.
Investigated Bluetooth low energy stack. Developed program for BLE chip with ARM cortex-M0 and I2C, URAT. 
Created the BLE sensor network and developed an application for measuring transmission data in C# on Windows.


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Electrical and Computer Engineering
University of California, Davis

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Optics/Optical Sciences
Zhejiang University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zhiwei-zhao-73b75857

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Last updated: 2026-04-10