# Aaron Huang > Software Engineer at TikTok Location: San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/aaronhuang ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ TikTok Jan 2023 – Present | San Jose, California, United States Led backend architecture redesign for a global content platform serving 200M+ users across 41 countries, enabling 40+ major campaign launches in H1 2025. Built modular, self-service systems that cut feature delivery time by 85% and reduced in-app campaign setup time from 7+ days to <1 day, empowering non-technical teams to launch independently. Designed and scaled a real-time interaction tracking framework for high-traffic events, processing millions of concurrent short video interactions without service degradation. Integrated AI-driven planning systems leveraging trend data and LLMs, reducing campaign ideation cycles by up to 10 days. Delivered global initiatives generating 32M+ user submissions and 9.6M new user signups in six months through globally visible partnerships and content activations. Recognized for technical leadership with 3× performance awards and for mentoring engineers to deliver production-grade features within weeks. ### Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States Developed a firmware update delivery system for millions of remotes via Google Play Store on Chromecast devices running Android TV operating system. Built and tested an internal tool in Kotlin to summarize changes in pre-release device firmware builds across all Google Nest branded products. Increased JUnit test coverage by 75% on code responsible for receiving and verifying signed certificates on Chromecast devices. ### Undergraduate Student Instructor @ UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Berkeley, California, United States ### Tutor @ UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States Hosted virtual office hours to help teach data science concepts (NumPy/SciPy, EDA, visualization, regression, classification) to over 1200 students remotely. Graded exams and developed course materials for weekly student homework assignments. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon One Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States Implemented on-device testing functionality for the Android application running on Amazon One devices with Java and Dagger. Created new modal windows for a customer-facing dashboard to parse and send sensitive biometric data to a remote service in React. Added new methods to a Coral web service to relay JSON payloads to IoT Android devices via MQTT Designed, built, and tested new features for Amazon One after gathering requirements from the Research team. ### Frontend Developer @ Farm Generations Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States Worked in a team to build a consumer-facing farm discovery and shopping portal in React Native. Compiled and managed data from thousands of farms for use in Google's Firebase platform. ### Academic Intern @ UC Berkeley Division of Computing, Data Science, and Society Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Berkeley, California, United States Helped run weekly labs to teach students data science fundamentals (linear/logistic regression, bias-variance tradeoff, gradient descent, random forests). Helped debug student code written with various data science libraries (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, PyTorch). ### Software Engineer Intern @ SORACOM Inc. Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco Bay Area Added IoT functionality, location tracking, and cellular connectivity onto a Xiaomi M365 electric scooter using Soracom's APIs and services. Created an Android app using React Native and Stripe's payment API to locate, lock, and unlock scooters. Published a series of Hacker Noon articles and YouTube videos describing the process. Hacker Noon articles: https://hackernoon.com/@aahuang YouTube videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nn7tu7VAW6A ## Education ### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 ### Lowell High School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aaronkh - Website: https://www.aaronkh.xyz --- Source: https://flows.cv/aaronhuang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/aaronhuang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22