# Tao Luo

> Staff Software Engineer at Saildrone

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Saildrone Inc
Jan 2018 – Present
Designed and implemented real-time and batch ETL pipelines, as well as external-facing APIs, enhancing mission-critical data delivery for organizations including NASA, NOAA, Coast Guard, and Navy.

Designed and scaled a cloud-based data lake on Amazon S3 with Presto/Trino, enabling ML teams to efficiently query and analyze petabyte-scale datasets for model training

Implemented large-scale data processing and analytics using Spark/Databricks, lowering processing times from days to hours.

Designed and optimized database solutions to support both operational and analytical workloads.

### Software Engineering Team Lead @ WANdisco
Jan 2013 – Jan 2018
Led a team of six engineers building Fusion, a distributed system enabling Paxos-based data replication across clusters, Hadoop distributions, and cloud object stores (S3, Google Cloud, Azure). Supported enterprise customers including Walmart, Barclays, and GE.

### Software Engineer @ eBay Inc
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013
Designed and implemented HS Code classifier using Apache Mahout/Hadoop, to classify items based on title and description for the Global Shipping Program.

### Data Refinery Intern @ Moody's Analytics
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011

### Person of the Year @ TIME Magazine
Jan 2005 – Jan 2006


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tao-luo-a15a6470

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Last updated: 2026-04-12