# Zijian(Jacob) Tao

> Staff Software Engineer at Facebook

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2017 – Present | Menlo Park
- Next-generation agent systems, focusing on memory design and continual self-evolving mechanisms

- Foundation model adaptation and alignment; shipped LLM fine-tuned models for safety and content understanding use cases leveraging SOTA techniques including distillation, SFT, reinforcement learning and test-time scaling.

- TL large-scale feed recommendation systems from 0→1 for Facebook Creators in Creator Feed.

### Software Engineer Internship @ Groupon
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Palo Alto
Global Payment Team

### Software Engineering Intern @ AppFolio Inc.
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Tutor @ UC San Diego
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Tutoring CSE12, CSE 15L, CSE 100, CSE 110
 
Assist hundreds of students debugging their C and C++ programs and improve their debugging skill

### Cofounder, Project Manager, Tech Lead, Data Analyst @ Moorgoo
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | San Diego
Started the college craglist business to facilitate in-college transactions;

As Tech Lead, implement the whole website backend from scratch using Ruby on Rails;

Fetch, analyze, parse and insert over 1000 transaction items into database from other sources using python with library Selenium;

Design and build statistical graph analyzing business well-beings, inspecting transactions, signed-up users and search keywords using d3 javascript.

### Staff and web developer @ UCSD Chinese Students and Scholars Association
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014

### Web Developer @ Torrey Pines Media Inc.
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
Build up native user commenting system to increase user interactivity and adhesiveness

Develop innovative ways of rendering third-party comments and decrease page load time by more than 50%.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Science
UC San Diego

### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science
UC San Diego


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/zijian-jacob-tao-9748545a

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Last updated: 2026-04-12