Yunkai Zhou
Founder of Gaida Corporation
Yunkai Zhou
Founder of Gaida Corporation
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
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
Limited Partner
2017
Limited Partner / Angel Investor
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Education
Latest Articles
Top 6 Tips on Being an Effective TL and TLM
Talks about Leadership, Careers and Engineering
Introduction of LifeHack, Leap.ai’s First Easter Egg
Talks about Startup, Easter Egg and April Fools
Envelopegate: A High-Tech Perspective on The Oscars
Talks about Movies, Engineering and Crisis Management