Weixiong Zheng

CTO & Co-Founder

UnitX

Jan 2021 - Current (5 years 7 months)

I lead Engineering at UnitX. UnitX is a series B startup developing vision hardware and software for quality inspection in manufacturing. We leverage next-gen AI and vision systems to help customers avoid escapes and improve yield. UnitX has more than 500 AI-driven vision systems running on customer production lines 24/7. UnitX Engineering includes more than 60 talented software and hardware engineers located across US and China. As the CTO, I focus on: - Technical, product and business strategy and vision - Product and engineering roadmap execution - Engineering team development and hiring - Mentoring managers and senior team members - Improving engineering culture and architecture - Engineering process improvement

Software Engineering

Gusto

Sep 2019 - Jan 2021 (1 year 5 months)

Gusto is a modern, online people platform that helps small businesses take care of their teams. On top of full-service payroll, Gusto offers health insurance, 401(k)s, expert HR, and team management tools. Today, Gusto offices in Denver, San Francisco, and New York serve more than 100,000 businesses nationwide. To learn more about life at Gusto, visit gusto.com/careers. We’re hiring in San Francisco, Denver, and New York.

Software Engineering Manager

Apolloio

May 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 4 months)

• Manage the product engineering team of full-stack/frontend engineers. Work closely with CEO and Head of Product on product roadmap, sprint planning, engineering resource management, etc. • Spend about 50% time working on system architecture, performing code review, fixing critical bugs and developing new features. • Help engineers with career growth planning. In charge of engineering promotion, hiring and firing. • Hired 4 fulltime software engineers and 4 fulltime software engineer contractors.

Software Engineering Manager

Apolloio

May 2018 - Aug 2019 (1 year 4 months)

• Manage the product engineering team of full-stack/frontend engineers. Work closely with CEO and Head of Product on product roadmap, sprint planning, engineering resource management, etc. • Spend about 50% time working on system architecture, performing code review, fixing critical bugs and developing new features. • Help engineers with career growth planning. In charge of engineering promotion, hiring and firing. • Hired 4 fulltime software engineers and 4 fulltime software engineer contractors.

Founding Engineer / Staff Software Engineer

Apolloio

Aug 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 6 months)

• First engineering hire (employee #7). Worked on almost every aspect of the tech stack including data scraping, storage, indexing, querying, front-end development, etc. • Architectured and built many core components of the platform such as Analytics, Rules Engine, Machine Learning pipeline, Phone Call integration with Twilio, etc. • Worked on multiple dev-op projects such as Elasticsearch migration from 1.4 to 5.6 with zero downtime, setting up Ansible to automate server configuration for main platform, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq, etc.

Founding Engineer / Staff Software Engineer

Apolloio

Aug 2016 - Jan 2019 (2 years 6 months)

• First engineering hire (employee #7). Worked on almost every aspect of the tech stack including data scraping, storage, indexing, querying, front-end development, etc. • Architectured and built many core components of the platform such as Analytics, Rules Engine, Machine Learning pipeline, Phone Call integration with Twilio, etc. • Worked on multiple dev-op projects such as Elasticsearch migration from 1.4 to 5.6 with zero downtime, setting up Ansible to automate server configuration for main platform, Elasticsearch, Sidekiq, etc.

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Software Engineer

Jul 2013 - Jul 2016 (3 years 1 month)

• Contributed as a key backend engineer to pivot GA into a user centric analytics platform by designing and building user based data models, storage systems, data processing pipelines, and reporting services. • Led the backend development of Audience support for Firebase Analytics, launched during 2016 Google I/O. Designed and developed the Audience definition language, interface between SDK and backend, and backend evaluation library. • Delivered Individual User report, Cohort report and Lifetime Value report in GA by participating in product design, backend implementation, testing and resource planning. • Worked on multiple data integration projects such as showing AdWords and DoubleClick campaign in Lifetime Value report and integrating

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Cofounder & Developer

Swoop App LLC

Jan 2013 - Jun 2013 (6 months)

• Designed and built social network app Swoop that allows users to make videos using photos and sound. Launched the iOS app in Apple Store in May 2013. • Developed app backend on Amazon EC2 with Django. • Self-taught iOS programming in 2 weeks.

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Software Engineer Intern

May 2012 - Aug 2012 (4 months)

• Worked in the Infrastructure team to develop a web application that lets users visualize and analyze the historical status of Google’s internal servers at a given timestamp • Designed and implemented extensible backend of the application including database interaction and caching system in C++ and SQL; built a temporary user interface in HTML that is easily transferable to the one being developed by a full-time employee

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Co-founder & Web Developer

ALGOPIA LLC

Sep 2011 - May 2012 (9 months)

• Developed a programming language similar to Python and built the compiler that allows customers to code stock investment strategies and run backward and forward tests • Designed and implemented the file based database for user information, stock investment strategies, back test results, and virtual directories in PHP • Set up the Linux development environment from ground up on Amazon EC2 servers by configuring Apache, PHP, MySQL, MediaWiki, Drupal, GIT, etc

Internship

ID Technologies

May 2011 - Jul 2011 (3 months)

• Developed 7 widgets in Python that analyze and display the rainfall and water flow data specified by customers which improved rainfall analysis efficiency by over 80% • Wrote 14 test files with the nose library and built a test server with the help of a colleague to auto-test widget codes which saved more than 60% of time to do future tests • Managed rainfall and water flow data by obtaining the data from Excel spreadsheets and transforming them into time-series objects so they can be used by widget codes

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Research Assistant

Chupp Laboratory

May 2010 - Jul 2011 (1 year 3 months)

• Utilized LabView to design and build a program that controls the pulsed nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) experiment; rewrote the program in Igor Pro • Conducted precise measurement of Radon's reaction to a varying magnetic field under 140 Degree Celsius environments; improved the set-up of the Radon electric dipole moment (EDM) experiment by upgrading the cell and wire • Devoted ten hours per week to grade homework and exams for physics260 - Honors Physics II lectured by Professor Chupp

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Research Assistant

Pletcher Laboratory

Jan 2010 - Jan 2011 (1 year 1 month)

• Tested and improved a software worth $50,000 which counts the number of bacteria colonies on culture plates; redesigned the user interface; wrote the user instruction; presented the software to 15 researchers during lab meeting • Programmed using Python and Parallax Propeller Tool to improve the fruit fly sleep deprivation experiment; allowed users to monitor individual fruit fly • Maintained experiment environment for the Screen Project; works included operating autoclave, sexing and transferring fruit flies, preparing test tubes, etc

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