A seasoned TL/M with a track record of driving cross-functional teams and landing cutting-edge AI/ML research, such as perception and generative models, in high-impact products, especially on compute-constrained platforms.

Experience

Stealth AI StartupMember of Technical Staff

2025 — Now

San Francisco Bay Area

GoogleStaff Software Engineer, Tech Lead Manager

2024 — 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

WaymoSenior Software Engineer, Tech Lead

2022 — 2024

San Francisco Bay Area

Tech Lead

Drive cross-functional efforts across Perception, Behavior, and System Engineering

Own business-critical problem clusters: light rail, emergency vehicle interaction, map robustness, etc.

Set directions for next-generation ML object tracking

GoogleSenior Software Engineer

2017 — 2022

San Francisco Bay Area

Researcher-engineer on computational photography in Google Research. Previously Software Engineer II, III.

Shipped industry-leading camera features in Pixel phones: Night Sight, Astrophotography, Motion Mode, etc.

Conducted & productized computer vision research on low-light imaging, depth, and autofocus

Designed & implemented high-performance image processing pipelines

Co-authored research papers in CVPR, ICCV, and SIGGRAPH

GoogleSoftware Engineer II

2016 — 2017

London, United Kingdom

Android platform engineering.

Landed enterprise mobility management (EMM) APIs in Android 8 & 9 (10M+ MAU)

Investigated & patched critical security vulnerabilities in Android 7.1, 8, & 9 (2.5B+ MAU)

Collaborated with key OEMs & enterprise partners on 2 major features and 10+ cases

Education

University of Cambridge

BA / MEng

2012 — 2016

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Cambridge-MIT Exchange

2014 — 2015

Tsinghua University

BEng (unfinished)

2011 — 2012

Shanghai High School

2008 — 2011

Experience+3

Education

BA / MEng

Cambridge-MIT Exchange

BEng (unfinished)

Experience