# Meng Tan

> Staff Software Engineer

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/mengtan

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Aurora Solar
Jan 2021 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Lead Graphics Engineer @ Folsom Labs
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, CA
Lead graphics engineer for Helioscope, the most popular commercial scale solar power design software on the market. Primarily responsible for development of core design, rendering, automation, and simulation logic. When joining, was third non-founding employee and company was ultimately acquired by Aurora Solar.

### Google Photos @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, CA
Photo Magic: automatic detection and compositing of rectangular regions in real photographs.

### Google Maps @ Google
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Mountain View, CA
Singer: refining the automatic registration of aerial imagery camera parameters through structure from motion.

### Engineering Intern @ Industrial Light & Magic
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | San Francisco, CA
Aided in development of experimental markerless real-time motion capture system for film production.

### Graphics Engineer @ Rockstar Games
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Greater Boston Area
Work on animation systems, fluid and particle systems, tone mappers, and other miscellany.

### R&D Engineer @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2006 – Jan 2008 | New York, NY
Built internal visual IDE to accelerate application development on Bloomberg terminal.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Virginia

### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/meng-tan

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Last updated: 2026-04-12