Haochen Zhao

Haochen Zhao is a Senior Engineering Manager at Plaid since 2022, leading four engineering teams focused on financial network enablement and insights, including product authorization, risk management, network data foundations, and payments tokenization. Prior experience includes roles at Airbnb from 2016 to May 2022, where Haochen managed payments risk and modeling teams to enhance the security of Airbnb’s global payment system and contributed significantly to the Trust team's technical architecture and fraud detection models. Additionally, an internship at Alibaba.com involved improving cloud server security using machine learning. Haochen holds a Master’s degree in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Automation, graduating magna cum laude from Northwestern Polytechnical University.