William Zhou
SmartNews / Engineering Manager
William Zhou
SmartNews / Engineering Manager
Engineering Manager at SmartNews in the Ads division. Former software engineer @ SmartNews, and previously Amazon. Graduated Game Design BFA, double major Computer Science, minor in Japanese from NYU. Born and raised in NY.
Ambition
In the future
Work on products I'm interested in, meaning journalism/magazines focusing on the areas of cooking, food/drink, fashion, and/or travel.
SmartNews3 years
Engineering ManagerPresent
- Present
Engineering Manager for the Ads Delivery team.
Software Engineer
Software engineer on the Ads Ranking and Ads Delivery teams. We own the entire backend platform for serving ads content and measuring ads performance. The stack is mainly in Java and Golang. We make extensive use of EMR/Hadoop/Presto and streaming systems like Kafka.