Yurong J.

Engineer @ Meta

About

Builder with 10+ years of experience at the intersection of media processing, AI, and large-scale infrastructure. I specialize in video and image codecs, distributed systems, and media AI—building technologies that power next-generation audio/video generation, and GenAI media product. Advancing state-of-the-art media AI, from video processing pipelines to GenAI video generation and adaptation. Learn more about my interests and research work on my personal site: https://jiangyurong609.github.io

Country

United States

City

San Francisco Bay Area

Industry

Online Media

Skill

Python, Android Development, Matlab, Java, SQL, C, C++, Machine Learning, Algorithms, Computer Science, Programming, Mathematical Modeling

Experience

Engineer

Meta

2022-5 - Present · 4 yrs 4 mos

Drove Media (Gen)AI Strategy & Platforms for Meta Spearheaded Meta’s Media (Gen)AI strategy, accelerating AI adoption across Family of Apps (FoA) and Ads, driving transformative product innovation and measurable business impact. Built and scaled Meta’s Media GenAI platform from 0→1, incubating and launching multiple company-wide initiatives that redefined content creation, personalization, and monetization. Delivered a portfolio of industry-first launches, including: 2025 * MovieGen v2v Restyle for Instagram Edits & Meta.AI — (https://www.theverge.com/news/685581/meta-video-editing-ai-preset-prompts ) * Instagram Cutouts powered by Segment Anything — (https://ai.meta.com/blog/instagram-edits-cutouts-segment-anything/ ) * Ads Video Highlight: Generative AI personalization at scale — (https://www.facebook.com/business/news/cannes-lions-2025-introducing-the-next-era-of-generative-ai-for-advertisers-and-agencies-personalization-at-scale ) 2024 * Meta AI Translation with best-in-class dubbing, voice cloning, and lipsync — (https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/15/instagram-adds-new-features-including-custom-ai-stickers-photo-filters-a-clip-hub-and-more ) 2023 * Instagram Cutout Sticker — (https://www.techradar.com/computing/artificial-intelligence/meta-announces-an-ai-translation-tool-that-could-change-the-way-you-watch-instagram-and-facebook-reels-forever ) Led Media GenAI for Ads, generating $100M+ in annual recurring revenue across multiple years through AI-powered creative optimization and personalization at scale. Recognized for leadership and vision, building and aligning large cross-functional teams across research, product, and engineering to deliver AI breakthroughs to billions of users.

Staff Software Engineer

2021-3 - 2022-5 · 1 yr 3 mos

Sunnyvale, CA

Tech lead/Architect for Media/AI Processing Infra, building next generation of media/AI processing platform Tech Lead/Architect for building Linkedin's live infrastructure and launching Linkedin Live and subsequent product features, including Linkedin events live, encrypted live, auto caption, etc. Multiple times hackathon winner. Multiple US patents

Software Engineer

2018-2 - 2022-5 · 4 yrs 4 mos

Sunnyvale, CA

Works on Media Infrastructure to provide full lifecycle digital media solution for LinkedIn. In particular, redesign the image processing pipeline, speeding up 100x on processing, saving 98% on cost.