Chris Zeng

Chris Zeng began their work experience as a Research Intern at the Yale University Physics Department in 2012. In 2013, they worked as a Software Development Intern at Microsoft. Chris then joined Microsoft as a Software Engineer in 2014, where they worked on the Office Performance team, focusing on creating tools and solutions for office developers. In 2016, Chris joined Quora as a Software Engineer, working on the core Questions product and Internationalization. Chris later became a Staff Software Engineer at Quora, leading efforts to modernize the frontend tech stack and improve page load performance. Chris also played a key role in launching Poe, a platform for people to interact with Large Language Models.

Chris Zeng attended Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology from 2006 to 2010. After completing high school, they enrolled at Yale University where they pursued an Intensive Physics and Computer Science double major. Chris studied at Yale from 2010 to 2014 and graduated with a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) degree.