# Chenyu Zhao

> Chenyu Zhao is a Fireworks AI co-founder and engineer who previously helped co-found Google Cloud's Vertex AI. He has led Fireworks' core infrastructure team, drawing on nearly a decade of experience at Google in machine learning platforms and mobile ads systems.

- **Role:** Co-founder and core infrastructure leader at Fireworks AI
- **Organizations:** Fireworks AI, Google, University of California, Berkeley
- **Education:** B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of California, Berkeley
- **Known for:** Helped co-found Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform., Led a 50-person Google engineering team developing AutoML, MLOps and explainable AI solutions., Led Google's mobile ads machine learning team, working on modeling, ad auctions and ML infrastructure.

## Career timeline

- **2013** — Completed undergraduate study at the University of California, Berkeley and joined Google as a software engineer.
- **2013-2022** — Worked at Google, rising to Senior Staff Software Engineer; led mobile ads machine learning work and helped co-found Google Cloud's Vertex AI.
- **2022** — Co-founded Fireworks AI and began leading core infrastructure engineering.
- **2025** — Spoke on Building AI Agents at the TechEquity AI Summit in Silicon Valley and joined an AMD AI Dev Day discussion with Crusoe.
- **2026** — Fireworks announced a $1.505 billion Series D and said it was serving more than 40 trillion tokens daily.

## Achievements

- Helped co-found Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform.
- Led a 50-person Google engineering team developing AutoML, MLOps and explainable AI solutions.
- Led Google's mobile ads machine learning team, working on modeling, ad auctions and ML infrastructure.
- Co-founded Fireworks AI and led its core infrastructure team.
- Presented Building AI Agents at the 2025 TechEquity AI Summit.

## Latest updates

- **2026-07** — Fireworks AI, which Zhao co-founded, announced a $1.505 billion Series D and said it served more than 40 trillion tokens per day.
- **2026-03** — Fireworks announced its acquisition of Hathora to strengthen global compute orchestration.
- **2025-11** — Zhao delivered a Building AI Agents talk at the TechEquity AI Summit.

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chenyuzhao
- GitHub: https://github.com/zchenyu

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Last updated: 2026-09-29