Experience
2023 — Now
2023 — Now
San Diego Metropolitan Area
Mobile-Adaptive Design: Lead Engineer on designing critical backend components to enable seamless, performant mobile experiences; redesigned Service Worker architecture to optimize caching and state synchronization for mobile devices.
Building core backend services and frontend runtime components for the low‑code platform powering all ServiceNow web applications.
Modernizing UI architecture to support intelligent component rendering, runtime responsiveness, and cross-device consistency.
Tech: Java, JavaScript, GraphQL, MariaDB, MySQL, AWS, CI/CD.
2023 — 2023
2023 — 2023
San Diego Metropolitan Area
Designed and operated high-throughput ads serving APIs (GraphQL + REST) integrating with Microsoft Xandr, handling large-scale real-time ad requests.
Led platform engineering and built distributed backend systems with Kotlin/Java + Redis + Cosmos, optimized for low-latency request paths and strong consistency.
Security & Auth: Built high-volume retail cashback APIs with a strong security posture, implementing JWT-based authentication and authorization to protect financial transaction integrity.
Developed platform SDKs enabling external developers to integrate retail and payment services with minimal friction.
2021 — 2023
2021 — 2023
Menlo Park, California, United States
Led a 4-engineer team enabling Instagram advertisers to create ads through Meta Business Suite.
Built backend and frontend systems used by millions of advertisers, improving performance and reliability.
Established cross-org collaboration with Instagram, Facebook, and WhatsApp teams.
Tech: React, JavaScript, Hack/PHP, Python, PostgreSQL.
2021 — 2021
2021 — 2021
Menlo Park, California, United States
Developed secure permission and access control systems for WhatsApp admin tool, Instagram internal tooling, and messaging infra.
Built data-access abuse detection systems to monitor policy violations.
Optimized Presto SQL infrastructure and query functions.
Tech: PHP, Python, Presto, Hive, SQL, Java.
2017 — 2020
2017 — 2020
Menlo Park, CA
Re-designed Facebook Boosted Post with a modern web stack (React, GraphQL, Hack/PHP) to improve reliability and performance; main engineer for the Billing and Payment workflows, collaborating with the Payment team to drive strong revenue growth.
Built an asynchronous ads creation backend, recovering significant advertiser revenue.
Tech: React, GraphQL, Hack/PHP.
Education
UC Santa Barbara
Master's degree
Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Master of Science - MS
Shanghai Jiao Tong University