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Yunkai Zhou
Founder of Gaida Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Yunkai Zhou is a 2-time entrepreneur and tech executive with experience at Google and Meta, currently serving as Head of Machine Learning at Sumo Logic. Highlights of his career include co-founding Leap.ai (acquired by Meta) and holding various leadership roles at Google, such as Senior Staff Software Engineer and Tech Lead Manager.
Work Experience
Co-Founder
2024 - Current
We are hiring Founding Engineers (see https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/3994386444)! I'm jumping back into entrepreneurship, and starting a new company. Stay tuned for our upcoming product announcement.
Limited Partner
2022
Limited Partner / Angel Investor
Firsthand.vc is an inception stage VC investing in autonomous B2B software across industries.
Limited Partner
2017
Limited Partner / Angel Investor
Foothill Ventures is a technology-focused venture fund that invests in seed to A-round startups in the United States.
Director of Engineering
2019 - 2024
I led engineering for Facebook Marketplace. Past roles also include Jobs, Services, Faith, etc.
Principal Software Engineer
2019 - 2019
Uber TL on Jobs on Facebook.
Meta is a social technology company that enables people to connect, find communities, and grow businesses.
Raised $25,607,817,488.00 from ValueAct Capital.
Co-founder & CTO
2016 - 2019
The Leap.ai team has joined Facebook to continue their passion of matching users with the right jobs. Leap.ai's mission is to deeply understand each person and enable their career success and happiness. We believe everyone can be a star at the right place.
Leap.ai is a recruiting platform that uses AI to refer and match job seekers to the right company.
Raised $3,380,000.00 from Founder Friendly Labs, Eric Rosenblum, ZhenFund, Rich Liu, Xuhui Shao and ZhenFund.
Co-Chair
2018 - 2018
Organized the largest Asian Career Development Conference with 1500 attendees in Santa Clara Convention Center.
Head of Machine Learning
2015 - 2016
Sumo Logic is the market leader of cloud based logs management and analytics service, and its customers range from large traditional corporations to small start-ups. Everyday it processes PBs of unstructured server logs, and builds advanced search, monitoring, alerting, and anomaly detection functionalities. It just won 2016 Cloud Awards for Best Analytics solutions. https://www.sumologic.com/press/2016-02-02/sumo-logic-wins-the-2015-2016-cloud-award-for-best-analytics-solution/ I led the Advanced Analytics team, which is responsible for Sumo Logic's machine learning and analytics products. I led the team to set vision, design and build large-scale machine learning evaluation framework, and develop state-of-the-art supervised and unsupervised solutions. I also led the team to launch the highly-appraised LogCompare feature https://help.sumologic.com/Search/LogCompare
Sumo Logic is a provider of cloud-based machine data analytics that enables reliable and secure cloud-native applications.
Raised $340,000,000.00 from Employee Stock Option Fund, Franklin Templeton, Battery Ventures and Tiger Global Management.
Senior Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager
2012 - 2015
- Led the project to serve context aware ads in knowledge graph. http://searchengineland.com/google-testing-ads-knowledge-graph-panels-184584 - Cross-function owner of the Automotive Vertical, which contributes to $xB annual revenue. http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2015/05/05/google-rolls-out-new-ads-as-mobile-searches-top-pcs-in-10-countries/
Staff Software Engineer / Tech Lead Manager
2009 - 2012
- Cross-function owner to detect and remove bad advertisers from Google ads network. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/making-our-ads-better-for-everyone.html - Owner of ads landing page crawl project - Owner of ads malware detection project - KDD 2011 Best Paper Award http://research.google.com/pubs/pub37195.html
Senior Software Engineer
2006 - 2009
- Led the project to detect bad advertisers. http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/making-our-ads-better-for-everyone.html
Software Engineer
2006 - 2006
- One of founding engineers in Google Pittsburgh; significant contribution in office culture setup. Learned how to build "startup in a big corporation". - Co-led the project to predict ads click through rate.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.
Software Design Engineer
2003 - 2006
I worked on Microsoft payments and billing platform. Designed and implemented several generations of the payments system, including API, database, and backend billing processes. One of the key achievements was billing on time for 1000 consecutive days, but the top highlight is building donate.msn.com over a single night in response to Hurricane Katrina.
Microsoft Advertising provides digital advertising solutions.
Education
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