Pengyu Zhang

Senior Engineering Manager @ Uber

About

My team builds cloud network infrastructure to run AI workloads, such as large language model, and cloud native services, such as function compute, database, etc.

Country

United States

City

Redmond

Industry

Computer & Network Security

Skill

AI infra, Kubernetes, Cloud-Native Architecture, Network Virtualization, DPU, C, C++, Mandarin, Matlab, Java, Python, Wireless Communications Systems, Distributed Systems, Wireless Networking, RFID, Software Defined Radio, Algorithms, Embedded Systems, Computer Science

Experience

Senior Engineering Manager

Uber

2024-1 - Present · 2 yrs 9 mos

Seattle, Washington, United States

My team ensure the flexible and safe adoption of AI (including LLMs and AI tools) in large-scale enterprise environments. This includes defending against prompt injection attacks, jailbreaking attempts, and other AI-specific threats, while enabling secure adoption of emerging technologies such as MCP and AI agents. For details, please check https://pengyuzhang.github.io/

Senior Engineering Manager

Alibaba Group

2020-1 - 2024-1 · 4 yrs 1 mo

Bellevue, Washington, United States

I lead a group of engineers and researchers. We build cloud network infrastructure to run AI workloads, such as large language model, and cloud native services, such as function compute, database, etc.

Staff Engineer

Alibaba Group

2018-6 - 2020-1 · 1 yr 8 mos

Greater Seattle Area

I lead a team and built RFID-based automation systems for logistic networks. This product is shipped and deployed in hundreds of warehouses and stores in Alibaba's logistic networks, fresh food delivery services, and asset management business. The efficiency is improved by 3x and the accuracy is boosted to 99.9%, by reducing the error 5x.

Postdoc Researcher

Stanford University

2016-2 - 2018-6 · 2 yrs 5 mos

San Francisco Bay Area

I built hardware and software systems that backscatter information on top of WiFi and Bluetooth traffic. My patents are acquired by TandemLaunch and form the basics of Haila Technology.