LZ Liangwei Zhang

AI / LLM Engineer

Building reliable AI experiences from model behavior to product delivery.

AI / LLM engineer with TikTok production software engineering experience and a CS master's background, now focused on model fine-tuning, AI evaluation capabilities, and production-grade AI product engineering.

Model fine-tuning AI evaluation AIGC product engineering Backend systems Recommendation systems Android / Kotlin

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About

I am an AI / LLM engineer with production software engineering experience at TikTok across user-facing product features, AIGC-powered social experiences, and backend engineering. My work has involved large-scale social product experiences, recommendation surfaces, virtual identity features, and cross-functional collaboration with product, design, and algorithm teams. I now focus on model fine-tuning, AI evaluation capabilities, and engineering reliable AI experiences from model behavior to product delivery.

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Experience

AI / LLM Engineering

Current focus

China

Focused on model fine-tuning and AI model evaluation capabilities, including workflows for assessing model behavior, improving response quality, and supporting iterative model optimization.

Software Development Engineer

TikTok

2023 - 2025

Worked on production software systems across user-facing product features, AIGC-powered social experiences, and backend engineering. Built and launched social product features in multiple regions, collaborated with product, design, and algorithm teams, and contributed to recommendation-related engineering improvements with a focus on reliability, maintainability, and product impact.

M.S. in Computer Science

Carnegie Mellon University

Pittsburgh

Studied intelligent information systems with coursework across machine learning, NLP, search engines, distributed systems, and production ML.

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Selected Projects

Selected work across AI product engineering, backend systems, recommendation-related engineering, and applied machine learning.

AI Application

OCR-RAG Knowledge Repo

Turns scanned PDFs into a searchable and question-answerable knowledge repository with OCR extraction, semantic retrieval, and LLM-powered answers.
OCR RAG FastAPI React FAISS Claude
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AI Knowledge System

LLM Knowledge Graph

An interactive knowledge graph for organizing, browsing, and understanding core AI / LLM concepts and their relationships.
Knowledge Graph LLM JavaScript Visualization
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NLP / Knowledge Graph

COVID-19 Knowledge Graph Construction

Undergraduate final year project on extracting entities and relations from COVID-19 literature to build a medical knowledge graph and visualization application.
NLP NER OpenIE Knowledge Graph MongoDB
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Search / Backend

Search Engines

CMU coursework project implementing retrieval and ranking components including exact match, best match, relevance feedback, learning-to-rank, and diversified ranking.
Java Lucene Ranking Information Retrieval
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Contact

I am open to conversations around AI engineering, LLM applications, backend systems, and practical machine learning.

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