Since Dec 2023, I started leading a team of both front-end and quality engineers to build features on YouTube Home, where GenAI is part of the solution space. Yes - It's the first page that you see when you either open the mobile app, or visit YouTube from your browser.

Prior to the role, I was an eng lead on the YouTube Shopping team, where I

• Bootstrapped a team almost from the ground up, focusing on developing e-commerce features for Shorts viewers and creators. I hired and trained the team, and connected this new team with the rest of the org that's primarily based in another site, all while I was new to the org myself. See https://www.glossy.co/beauty/as-glossier-realigns-it-taps-youtubes-new-shoppable-shorts-challenge/ as an example of what we shipped.

• Led the team through major org changes; brought structure, influenced the shape of the future org, and helped the team settle through the transition.

• Led a team to develop the platform and merchant facing features that allow external merchants to operate their affiliate business on YouTube.

I started helping grow the Pixel phone software team in Google Taiwan since Feb 2019. My core responsibilities included

• Leading/managing engineering teams. I managed a team of 36 people with up to 5 managers. My team built the core Android/Pixel experience that EVERY Android user sees and needs. The areas and products we focused on were around user onboarding (including Android/Pixel Setup Wizard, iOS user switching, and Pixel user education/retention), and configuration (Android/Pixel Settings, and battery experience).

• Developing Google culture and processes within the org. I brought in Google's value, mindset, and expectations to the org that's relatively new to Google. I helped steer org-level efforts, such as shaping the performance review process that needed to take into account both the Google standard and the special situation of the org.

• Coaching managers and ICs. I helped people on their career and daily challenges on both projects and people issues.

Google Search App on Android

• Led/Managed a team to deliver search features on Android and Pixel homescreens that drove the growth of the search product. We made the search experience feel naturally integrated into the phone's launcher, built the At-A-Glance feature which surfaces instant info (such as weather) on the homescreen, and pushed the Google-powered -1 screen (i.e the screen to the left of the homescreen) to millions of devices from a very small number.

• Drove cross-team / cross-function / cross-company collaborations.

• Co-created processes to improve the app's reliability and quality.

Google Search App on Windows 10

• Led the effort to ship Google Search App for Windows 10.

Google Search App on Windows 8

• Developed core UI and features. Launched in Windows App Store in 2012.

Chrome New Tab Page

• Improved the quality and product excellence of Chrome's new search-focused New Tab Page. Launched in 2013.

Developed a new API to expose metrics from the Speech Recognition Core to help internal developers understand the cause of the recognition results.