Product Engineer
Palo Alto, California
Software Developer Intern @ Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Toronto Developed an Eclipse plug-in independently, WordMan, for their Eclipse RCP software, Coral, which manages Word templates and perform semi-automated letter generation From September 2008 to December 2008 (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer Lead - Payment @ Facebook ● Created over 10 million digital wallet accounts in Philippines...
Software Developer Intern @ Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Toronto Developed an Eclipse plug-in independently, WordMan, for their Eclipse RCP software, Coral, which manages Word templates and perform semi-automated letter generation From September 2008 to December 2008 (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSoftware Engineer Lead - Payment @ Facebook ● Created over 10 million digital wallet accounts in Philippines and Peru in 1 year for people to transact digitally for the first time.● Led first ever launch of QR payment on Messenger in the world with our Philippines partner, Mynt.● Led promo abuse detection and prevention, saved partners millions of dollars.● Set team structure, define product direction, strategy and roadmap for the whole product team.● Led a team of 7 engineers to focus on roadmap execution in APAC region.● Fostered collaborative partnership between various internal and external cross functional teams.● Led the team to spend a lot of time on the ground in Philippines to learn and understand local user transaction behaviors and incorporated them into the product design and optimization to drive adoption. From January 2018 to April 2019 (1 year 4 months) Menlo Park, CACTO @ Brilent ● Led product management and the engineering team on the development of the industry leading AI/Machine Learning based job and resume matching engine product. In the 2017 Sourcecon, Brilent’s matching engine competed with top human recruiters in the US and placed 3rd place evaluated based on the quality of the candidate selections.● Built an entity graph of job titles, skills, companies, schools, etc., by leveraging the latest machine learning and clustering techniques over 100 million candidate profiles.● Led a team of 8 technical personnel, including software engineers, data engineers, and data scientists, to develop the product and support 8+ large enterprise clients.● Entire infrastructure is on AWS, tech stack includes, Java, Spring, Hazelcast, React, NodeJS, MySQL, PostgreSQL, and Spark. From September 2015 to December 2017 (2 years 4 months) San Mateo, CASoftware Engineer - Growth @ Facebook ● Worked on the Internet.org team in the Facebook Growth organization, which has the goal todrive incremental monthly active users (MAU) growth for the company.● Built and supported zero rating infrastructure for Facebook’s main mobile application and Messenger on both iOS and Android platforms to support mobile operators around the world to run special pricing marketing campaigns to drive more users to their network.● Brought to market many different products to drive substantial user growth to Facebook and at the same time, being financially sustainable for the mobile operators. Worked with cross functional teams (XFN) to bring these products to market. Currently, this is a major growth driver for Facebook, bringing in over 100 million incremental MAP a year, as well as an accelerated driver for many countries’ Internet adoption rate.● Spent a lot of time on the ground in Southeast Asia to learn and understand local user behaviors and incorporated them into the product design and optimization to drive growth. From September 2013 to September 2015 (2 years 1 month) Menlo Park, CAData Engineer @ Facebook ● Designed and built Facebook’s first HR recruiting analytics data warehouse for BI reporting. HR leadership and management team used the reports to optimize hiring efficiency, candidate experience, measured employee churn, resource allocation, and hit aggressive hiring targets during Facebook’s hyper growth phase.● Deployed Oracle Business Intelligence Applications (OBIA) for the entire finance team. Leveraged Informatica and optimized the incremental extract and aggregation to be 30 minutes or less, which helped finance team during month end close and in preparation of the IPO.● Designed and built the first data warehouse for the internal task tool. It enabled and improved management of all levels across the company to leverage the task tool as a project management and workflow/process monitoring tool.● Participated in BI tools evaluation, including ad-hoc data visualization tool, such as Tableau. As well as large SQL data warehouse databases for petabyte scale use cases, such as Vertica, Oracle Exadata. From June 2011 to September 2013 (2 years 4 months) Menlo Park, CASoftware Engineer (Co-founder) @ Rewardcat ● Founded a venture that made creating customer loyalty programs easy for small to medium sized businesses. The solution leveraged QR code to engage with customers and small/medium businesses to improve customer engagement and increase spending.● Developed the mobile solution on iOS and server backend.● Acquired hundreds of clients in the Bay Area. From 2011 to 2012 (1 year) Sunnyvale, CAAnalyst/Business Intelligence Intern @ Facebook, Palo Alto ● Built Facebook’s first ETL scripts that transform data from Oracle ERP financial database toOracle data warehouse where Hyperion Essbase uses to build cubes and supports GL/AP detailed drill down for the financial planning team. It is an important piece of infrastructure that is critical for the later IPO preparation.● Designed star schema and implemented ETL scripts to support reporting in Microstrategy on the Ariba procurement system for the AP finance team to optimize procurement and cost savings. From September 2010 to December 2010 (4 months) Palo Alto, CASoftware Developer Intern @ BMO Capital Markets, Toronto Built and maintained desktop and web applications (C# and ASP.Net)Built and maintained Excel spreadsheet reports that perform data analysis used by traders on a daily basisWorked with both Oracle and SQL Server databases, performed query optimizations From January 2010 to April 2010 (4 months) Toronto, Canada AreaSoftware Developer Intern @ Geoware Inc., Waterloo Participated in the full development cycle under Scrum methodology in a team about 5 developers for an extension of its flagship product, GEOWARE 4.1Implemented an automated entry/exit of the landfill facility with 24-hours availabilityPerformed bug fixes and improvements on existing components of its flagship product From May 2009 to September 2009 (5 months) Sybase IQ QA Intern @ Sybase Inc., Waterloo Designed and implemented test plans for Sybase IQ features related to FIPS, IPV6 protocol, and Kerberos authentication.Performed and analyzed performance test results.Developed a random query generating tool in Java for testing query accuracy. From January 2008 to April 2008 (4 months) Software Developer Intern @ Mercer, Toronto Worked by Oracle database to build Excel reports that presented performance problem in scheduled job queue.Prototyped an application in C# that retrieve and saves data from Oracle. From May 2007 to August 2007 (4 months) Software Engineer Lead - Wallet @ Facebook Building Novi wallet to make financial service available to everyone at little or no cost. San Francisco Bay Area
Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Toronto
Software Developer Intern
September 2008 to December 2008
Toronto, Canada Area
Software Engineer Lead - Payment
January 2018 to April 2019
Menlo Park, CA
Brilent
CTO
September 2015 to December 2017
San Mateo, CA
Software Engineer - Growth
September 2013 to September 2015
Menlo Park, CA
Data Engineer
June 2011 to September 2013
Menlo Park, CA
Rewardcat
Software Engineer (Co-founder)
2011 to 2012
Sunnyvale, CA
Facebook, Palo Alto
Analyst/Business Intelligence Intern
September 2010 to December 2010
Palo Alto, CA
BMO Capital Markets, Toronto
Software Developer Intern
January 2010 to April 2010
Toronto, Canada Area
Geoware Inc., Waterloo
Software Developer Intern
May 2009 to September 2009
Sybase Inc., Waterloo
Sybase IQ QA Intern
January 2008 to April 2008
Mercer, Toronto
Software Developer Intern
May 2007 to August 2007
Software Engineer Lead - Wallet
San Francisco Bay Area
Developed an Eclipse plug-in independently, WordMan, for their Eclipse RCP software, Coral, which manages Word templates and perform semi-automated letter generation Developed an Eclipse plug-in independently, WordMan, for their Eclipse RCP software, Coral, which manages Word templates and perform semi-automated letter generation
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Tony Zhang works for Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, Toronto
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Tony Zhang is Software Developer Intern
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Tony Zhang works in the Computer Software industry.
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Tony Zhang's colleagues are Andrew Wang, Navita G., Wenhan Xue, Su Xue, Daniel Ramagem, Max Thyen, Yohan Lejosne, Yiyi Chen, Cloud Xu, and Robert Y.
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