# Richard Hua

> Software Engineer, ex-Meta ex-Microsoft

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/richardhua

## Work Experience
### Principal Software Engineer @ XMTP Labs
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ XMTP Labs
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Building XMTP - the decentralized, interoperable, end-to-end encrypted messaging protocol for the next generation of social apps.

Alongside smart coworkers:
- Designed and implemented decentralization protocol for message transport and storage
- Re-designed and implemented encryption protocol for Signal-level security and scalable group chats
- Re-designed identity system to support multiple identities and higher security
- Gave regular tech talks for the team

### Software Engineer @ Highlight
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
Part-time on session live streaming, link sharing, backend scalability.

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | Greater Seattle Area
Tech lead on end-to-end encryption and group video calling in Facebook Messenger.

- Tech lead on Vanish Mode (end-to-end encrypted ephemeral chats) in Messenger
- Tech lead on group video chat backend in Messenger
- IC on end-to-end encryption protocol in Messenger
- Mentored three interns who outperformed their peers and accepted full-time offers

### Software Engineer II @ Microsoft
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017 | Redmond
Grew the CodePush developer service from founding to over 20k apps as of early 2017.

- Owned the storage layer, backend and REST API’s, contributed to the CLI and mobile SDK’s
- Also built JavaScript diagnostic tools in Visual Studio and browser developer tools in Internet Explorer

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | Redmond
Worked on browser developer tools in Internet Explorer

### Research Intern @ UNSW
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
- Built a probabilistic, grid-based localization algorithm for robotic football players in the RoboCup competition
- Wrote an honors thesis on computer vision

### Electrical Engineering Intern @ Downer
Jan 2009 – Jan 2010


## Education
### Bachelor of Computer Science
UNSW
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/richard-hua-2a779849

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Last updated: 2026-03-29