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Timeline
About me
Engineering Manager at Figma
Education

Wuhan foreign language school
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Raffles junior college
-Cambridge general certificate of education - advanced level (a-level) physics, chemistry, maths, geographyActivities and Societies: Harmonica Ensemble, Electronics Club

University of virginia
-Bachelor of science (b.s.) mathematics and computer science high distinction
Experience

Google
Jan 2014 - Jan 2015Software engineering intern2014Mobile search: personal aliases team.- Built voice action for relationship names related queries on Google Now. This includes queries such as "Call mom", "Send my brother a text..." etc.- Made both server and Android code changes for the feature.2015Google Photos team: bringing the new Google Photos app to Android Wear.I built the entire watch app from scratch which includes designing communication protocols between the phone and the watch, optimizing performance on the watch app, saving battery on both devices etc.The features of the new app include browsing recent photos, search photos, set watch faces with an album / search query.Patents regarding my design of the microapp are pending. Show less

Airbnb
Jun 2016 - Sept 2022Search Products- I'm Flexible Search: http://airbnb.com/2022-summer Lead verifications team- Verifying users: identity verification using facial recognition- Verifying listings: amenity detection in listing photos using computer vision / UGC verification using NLP models - Working on Mobile apps for China Growth team.- Backend engineer on Airbnb Plus Guest team.- Fullstack mobile engineer on Search Refine team.- Fullstack engineer on Airbnb Experiences team
Engineering Manager
Apr 2019 - Sept 2022Senior Software Engineer
Jun 2016 - Mar 2019

Vanta
Sept 2022 - May 2024Engineering managerTrust / Growth / Product Platform / Design Systems

Figma
Jul 2024 - nowEngineering manager
Licenses & Certifications
- View certificate

Structuring machine learning projects
CourseraJun 2020 - View certificate

Deep learning specialization
CourseraAug 2020 - View certificate

Sequence models
CourseraAug 2020 - View certificate

Convolutional neural networks
CourseraJul 2020 - View certificate

Improving deep neural networks: hyperparameter tuning, regularization and optimization
CourseraMay 2020 - View certificate

Neural networks and deep learning
CourseraMay 2020
Honors & Awards
- Awarded to Zihao (Alan) WangBachelor of Science with High Distinction University of Virginia May 2016
- Awarded to Zihao (Alan) Wang8th Position at North America Mid-Atlantic Regional Contest ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest Nov 2014
- Awarded to Zihao (Alan) WangIntermediate Honors University of Virginia Aug 2014
Volunteer Experience
Mentor
Issued by Computer4Kids on Jan 2014
Associated with Zihao (Alan) Wang
Languages
- maMandarin
- enEnglish
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