Vivian Zhang
Software Engineer in Test
At EveryInfra Vivian runs the sanitization tests for social media APIs, making sure no internal identifiers reach the data customers receive.
Education
- UC Berkeley, B.S. Computer Science (2012–2016)
Previous roles
- Meta (Menlo Park) — E2E Engineer → data masking infrastructure (2016–2024)
Articles by Vivian Zhang
- Apify Facebook Scraper Alternative: Cost per 1,000 Results, Measured
1,000 Facebook page posts cost $5.00 on Apify's Free tier and $0.056 in our live test. We also measured comments, Marketplace, search and page profiles.
- Muse Wonder API for Creator Due Diligence: Live Data Test and Cost Estimate
Build a TikTok and YouTube creator vetting agent on Meta's Muse Wonder API: tools JSON, a live data round trip, and the cost of a 10-creator list.
- OpenAI Agents API for review monitoring: a weekly low-star report from five review sites
A weekly review-monitoring agent on the OpenAI Agents API: 21 live calls on five review sites, $0.0069 a week per brand in data cost, config and limits.
- Apify Instagram Scraper Alternative: Free Tier and Price per 1,000 Tested
Apify Instagram Scraper alternative: $5 free buys about 1,850 results. We priced posts, comments, reels and profiles per 1,000 with 26 live calls.
- TikTok Creator API: Screen Creators with Profile and Video Samples
Integrate TikTok profile and user_videos endpoints, separate account and video snapshots, calculate clear engagement metrics, handle missing values, and avoid treating public data as conversion results.