Johnny Zhou

About Johnny Zhou

Engineering Manager

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Roblox

   Apr 2022 — Present · San Mateo, CA, US

   Manager and overall cross-functional DRI for the User Safety team (at peak - 19 across eng, PM, DSA and UX), which is responsible for minimizing exposure to abusive behavior and content on Roblox through behavioral change-Directly or indirectly managing 14 engineers (12 FTE, 2 interns), including another manager-Reduced overall user reoffense by XX%-Team culture champion - team has a reputation of having strong camaraderie-Company-wide Early Career Captain for interns-Affinity group lead-Established community contribution guidelines and expectations for Principal+ engineers-Team responsibilities and ownership include- Abuse reporting - Education - User interventions (education, nudges, warnings, restrictions, timeouts, bans, etc.)- Creator-facing ban API - Banning alt accounts from the same actor - Platformizing safety-related capabilities for broad company usage - Reforming users who have previously committed policy violations through various experimental treatments - Facilitating ML-based moderation through collecting ground truth labels and catching false negatives through effective abuse reporting - Full-stack implementation, inclusive of backend (Golang, C#), web frontend (Typescript/React), engine (C++), and Universal App (Lua)

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

• Stanford University

  MS, Computer Science

Skills

• Encryption
• Android
• Chromecast
• Python
• Scrum
• Php
• Production Operations
• Multi-Tiered Systems
• Android Development
• Scala
• Service Protection
• C++
• Distributed Systems
• Cloud Security
• Internationalization
• C
• Cloud Computing
• High Availability
• Mac Os X
• Databases
• Java
• Sql
• Linux
• Apis
• Oop
• Android Sdk
• System Performance
• High Performance Computing
• Scalability
• Web Application Security
• Automation