Improved user first day funding rate (key user growth metric) by rebuilding bank linking and money transferring.
Reduced million dollars of negative equity per year by introducing user photo ID upload and review.
Automated trade surveillance and reduced regulatory risk by building data pipeline that extracted order and execution data.
Greatly improved employee productivity by procuring an internal search solution and integrating it with various internal data sources.
Oct 2018 - Present
Tech Career LLC
Career Coach
Coaching software engineers for career growth through one-on-one.
Preparing computer science students for an upcoming industrial career.
Helping tech workers prepare for job application and interview.
Founder and CEO of the company.
Oct 2012 - Jul 2019
Facebook
Front End Engineer
Reduced daily error impacted mobile web user from 38% to 15% by overriding mobile browser resource fetching and fixing a lot of bugs.
Improved desktop web user experience by measuring, analyzing and optimizing end-to-end performance.
Gave recommendation on whether the User Growth organization should adopt React Native by shipping a project with React Native and iOS native in parallel.
User Growth Moonshot Project.
Eliminated 90% of bug reports from content moderators and increase their productivity by both technical and incentive means.
Engineering Manager (in the Moonshot Project)
Member of APIs@FB Steering Committee, led the Lunar New Year celebration volunteers for 7 years
Member of Chinese@FB Steering Committee, kickstarted coaching programs for Chinese engineers and managers
Nov 2011 - Sep 2012
Wandou Labs
Front-End Architect, managed the Front-End Team by setting team OKRs and mentoring engineers
May 2011 - Nov 2011
Yahoo!
Software Engineer, worked on Search Direct and SearchX
Nov 2007 - Apr 2011
Baidu
Senior Software Engineer
Developed Baidu Hi (Instant Messenger) web and Silverlight version.
Added iPhone & Android to Baidu Map API.
Opensourced JavaScript Library for Pattern Matching & Event Dispatch.
Member of Web Front-End Technical Committee
Member of New Search Technical Committee Product Group
Social Activities and Experiences
Online Content Creator and Influencer
400k followers on Zhihu and 12k followers on Twitter
Co-host of Avocadotoast (a technology podcast in Chinese)
Nov 2011 - Apr 2012
John Bryce Training Trainer
Delivered HTML5 and JavaScript training sessions to Adobe, Canon and CA
2009, 2010
Microsoft Tech·Ed China Speaker
Talked about Baidu Silverlight RIA Architecture
Talked about Microsoft AJAX Library
Talked about IE9 with HTML5 and CSS3
Talked about ASP.NET MVC
Aug 2007 - Jan 2008
Posts and Telecommunication Press Translator
Translated Prototype and Scriptaculous in Action into Chinese
Translated Adobe AIR in Action into Chinese
Education Background
2004 - 2008
Sun Yat-Sen University (SYSU)
Guangzhou, China
Major in Network Engineering, Computer Science Department
Was admitted with College Entrance Exam waived in 2004
1998 - 2004
The Affiliated High School of South China Normal University
Guangzhou, China
Also a student of the Guangdong Olympic High School