# Tao Huang

> Software Engineer @TikTok | Alumni @USC

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/taohuang

🏷️ Programming Languages: JavaScript (ES5, ES6), Typescript, HTML5, CSS3, JAVA, Python, R, SQL 
🏷️ Web Development: React.js, Next.js, Node.js, Express.js, Redux, React-Context, Pub/Sub, AJAX, GraphQL, Restful API, Bootstrap, jQuery, A11y, Unit testing, i18next
🏷️ DevOps & Cloud: Amazon Web Services, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, Splunk
🏷️ Database & Data Science: MongoDB, MySQL, Scikit-Learn, TensorFlow, SAS, SPSS, Stata
🏷️ Tools & Methodologies: Git, Jira, Postman, Webpack, Figma, Agile-Scrum methodology, TDD

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, CA
Global E-commerce
- TikTok Shop Seller Center
- IP Right Protection Platform
- Governance IPR/Listing System
- Pearl Operation Management Platform

### Software Engineer, Assistant VP @ U.S. Bank
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Atlanta Metropolitan Area
U.S. Bank｜Talech
• Developed and maintained the US Bank onboarding web application using JavaScript, TypeScript, React.js, and supporting multi-tenant integration for clients such as US Bank, State Farm, Elavon, and Talech, contributing to an average monthly increase of 20k small business customers worldwide.
• Collaborated on the development of a no-code platform (UI-configurator), enabling over 20 teams at USBank to rapidly build and customize their web pages and workflows.
• Delivered to the USBank POS product (Talech) development, including ordering systems, merchant management systems, dashboard, and the new talech.com homepage using React.js.
• Implemented asynchronous data handling in web applications using Redux-Thunk and Redux-Promise as middleware to manage RESTful APIs with JSON Web Token (JWT) for user authentication.
• Enhanced code quality and reliability by implementing unit tests using Jest to improve testing coverage.
• Designed user-centric web interfaces compliant with A11y standards, employing semantic HTML5 and CSS3 to ensure adaptability and responsiveness while enhancing user experience.
• Managed CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins to facilitate multi-environment deployments (IT, UAT, Prod).
• Integrated third-party APIs such as Google API and Salesforce API to extend application functionality.
• Developed RESTful APIs using Java to enable seamless communication between front-end and back-end.

### Frontend Engineer @ CSSE@USC
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
• Cooperated in the design and development of Single Page Applications (SPA) using MERN Stack technologies (MongoDB, Express.js, React JS, Node.js) along with JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3.
• Implemented Life Cycle methods to handle various operations throughout the application.
• Created Responsive Web by using Bootstrap and CSS Media Queries, optimized CSS file using SASS.
• Deployed the web App into an AWS EC2 cluster.

### Machine Learning Research Assistant @ Keck Medicine of USC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles Metropolitan Area
Conti Lab
COVID-19 and resident behavior data analysis and Machine Learning application
• Remotely connected to the CARC Advanced Computing Center to wrangle Large Mobility data by SQL.
• Extracted features and visualize interactive time series graphs and Choropleth maps by using R programming.
• Built support vector machine (SVM) as the classifier and used cross-validation to obtain the best model parameters.
• By using SVM model, classified city blocks according to their behavioral differences and identify correlation relationships between the census demographic data, mobility data, and COVID-19 infection data.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Biostatistics
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tao-huang-usc

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Last updated: 2026-03-29