# Danny Chiao > Engineering Leader Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/dannychiao Experienced software engineer passionate about building products that solve user problems. Proven record of building large scale ML systems, intuitive web + mobile experiences powered by AI / ML / Big Data in enterprise, emerging markets & education. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Databricks Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area Working on data quality, data classification, and agent quality ### Engineering Lead / Manager @ Tecton Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area Worked to make Tecton the de-facto solution to build production ML feature pipelines. Led efforts to build out Rift (https://resources.tecton.ai/rift), the next-gen Python based feature compute engine. Managed the Feast (http://feast.dev) team to improve the best-in-class open-source feature store, growing project adoption by ~5x. Drove improvements to post sales processes while directly owning and expanding contracts for some of Tecton’s largest customers. ### Staff Software Engineer @ Google Jan 2014 – Jan 2021 Worked across ML research teams and product teams to make Google Docs/Sheets/Slides intuitive and intelligent consumer and enterprise product offerings across web and mobile platforms. Included building models (incl LLMs), working with research orgs, building a privacy-aware ML infra layer, and integrating with products to launch features to production. ### Volunteer Software Engineer @ Shule Direct Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 • Built features to improve student engagement with educational content in Tanzania. • Designed and implemented a custom search engine. • Co-designed a database system to work with content consumers and editors across languages. ### Volunteer Software Engineer @ Urban Launchpad Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | MIT • Worked with team of designers to build a performant Android survey/location tracking application to enable information crowdsourcing and urban planning research in developing countries. Deployed across projects in Mexico, Bangladesh, Indonesia, etc. (http://www.flocktracker.org/) • Developed responsive web pages to distribute Dhaka's first public bus map to streamline transit and reduce congestion/pollution. • Prototyped Google Maps-based dashboard, allowing companies in Dhaka to manage their bus fleets. • Mentored an engineer to learn design principles and eventually take over the project to continue iterations and deployment. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Google Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA Improved the mobile web experience of Google+ with responsive web design, launching key features such as a revamped photo albums experience and site navigation. ### Software Engineering Intern @ Groupon Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Palo Alto, CA Improved the core ranking algorithm that matches deals to users by performing big data analytics in Vertica / Teradata databases and running MapReduce jobs. ### Research Intern @ MIT Media Lab Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Developed an Android / Arduino setup that used magnetic sensors to provide a high precision AR indoor navigation experience. ### Tech Caller @ MIT Alumni Assocation Jan 2010 – Jan 2011 Raised money for MIT by calling alumni to improve alumni relations and secure donations. ## Education ### B.S in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science Massachusetts Institute of Technology Jan 2010 – Jan 2014 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/danny-chiao - GitHub: https://github.com/adchia --- Source: https://flows.cv/dannychiao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/dannychiao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23