Engineering Manager
Palo Alto, California
University of Waterloo
Undergraduate Visiting Student, Electric and Computer Engineering
2010 to 2011
University of California, Los Angeles
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Statistics
2011 to 2016
Zhejiang University
Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering, Minor in Advanced honor Class of Engineering Education
2007 to 2011
What company does Dan Xie work for?
Dan Xie works for Alibaba Group
What is Dan Xie's role at Alibaba Group?
Dan Xie is Software Engineer Intern
What industry does Dan Xie work in?
Dan Xie works in the Computer Software industry.
Who are Dan Xie's colleagues?
Dan Xie's colleagues are Levi McCallum, Erica Oh, Angie Wei, Josh Beal, Freddy Montano, Yixue Li, Haibo Lu, George Wu, Julia Li, and Dani Gnibus
đź’Ľ Past Experience
experience in Engineering Manager at Pinterest Engineering Manager at Alibaba GroupSoftware Engineer Intern at Alibaba Group from May 2011 to July 2011 (3 months) in Hangzhou, China.1) Started working in Engineering Manager at Pinterest in San Francisco Bay Area.2) engineered supervised machine learning models to predict similarity between search query and keyword.3) worked as a technology lead in ads quality, practitioner in ads ranking, conversion optimization, ads budget, ads marketplace, ads landing page quality, ads experimentor, ads serving system development etc.4) Launched dozens of ads model for click through rate prediction, +xx% ads click through rate.5) Built conversion ads product from scratch, improving revenue share from 0 to xx%.6) Built automatic bidding ads product from scratch, improving revenue share from 0 to xx%.7) Launched new algorithm for ads marketplace auction, +xx% ads long click through rate.8) Built ads experiment dashboard to compare A/B test result (Front end + Back End) that's used by all ads engineers.9) Built ads landing page quality system from scratch, removing 404 and MFA (made for ads) ads.10) Started working at Pinterest as a Tech Lead in Ads Quality.
🎓 Education
Dan Xie is a recent graduate of University of Waterloo where he earned a undergraduate degree in 2010. After completing his undergraduate studies, Dan went on to complete a Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in Statistics at University of California, Los Angeles in 2011. After receiving his Ph.D. in Statistics, Dan worked at the University of Waterloo as a research associate from 2011 to 2016. During his time at the University of Waterloo, Dan did his research in the area of “ statistical inference for big data analysis”. In hisresearch, Dan was particularly focused on the study of big data analysis and its variousIssues. In his professional career, Dan has worked on a variety of projects, most notably with the aim of understanding big data and its variousissues. His most recent project was the development of a big data platform called HOOPS.HOOPS is a platform that helps businesses and organizations Mellon, IBM, and Microsoft use big data to better understand and effect their business decisions. Dan Xie is currently working on his next project, which is focused on the study of big data and its variousissues.
đź’ˇ Technical & Interpersonal Skills
Engineering ManagerDan Xie is currently a Software Engineer Intern at Alibaba Group from May 2011 to July 2011 (3 months) in Hangzhou, China.Built supervised machine learning models to predict similarity between search query and keyword. Engineering Manager at Pinterest in San Francisco Bay Area. engineering manager in ads ranking (conversion modeling) / ads quality, collaborating with product management team, leading a XFN engineering team across ads indexing, ads serving infra, ads ranking / ads quality, ads manager to build critical performance ads product from scratch- conversion optimization (Q1-2019 Earning: more advertisers can optimize their campaigns for conversions, bolstering Pinterest’s ability to help businesses effectively market their products and services. Adoption of conversion optimization has been very strong.)- automatic bid (Q4-2019 Earning: In 2020, one of our priorities is to make advertising on Pinterest more automated and easier to use and scale. To this end, we recently launched automatic bidding for traffic objectives, which is designed to spend the entirety of an advertiser’s budget on our platform with the lowest possible cost per click.).Software Engineer at Pinterest from September 2016 to September 2019 (3 years 1 month) in San Francisco Bay Area.Tech lead in ads quality, practitioner in ads ranking, conversion optimization, ads budget, ads marketplace, ads landing page quality, ads experimentor, ads serving system development etc. - launched dozens of ads model for click through rate prediction, +xx% ads click through rate.- built conversion ads product from scratch, improving revenue share from 0 to xx%.- built automatic bidding ads product from scratch, improving revenue share from 0 to xx%.- launched new algorithm for ads marketplace auction, +xx% ads long click through rate.- built ads experiment dashboard to compare A/B test result (Front end + Back End) that's used by all ads engineers.- built ads landing page quality system from scratch, removing 404 and MFA (made for ads) ads.
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