# Taoran Xue

> Software Engineer, C++/Python, ML/Recommendation/Infra

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

5 years experienced software engineer with strong knowledges of autonomous driving and solid development experience in C++, Python, and Javascript.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
- Building Tiktok Shop recommendation infrastructure
- Improving the creator and shopper selection ranking results

### Senior Software Engineer @ Pony.ai
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | Fremont, California, United States
1. Build evaluation and simulation CI/CD
  - running more than 50k simulated scenario cases
  - evaluation with 100k user-defined metrics
  - workflow optimization: C++ and operating system
2. Build vehicle data collection pipeline used by deep learning
  - automatically data ingestion
  - integrate with human-labeled and auto-labeled data
3. Design and implement self-driving debugger and visualization tool
  - implement scenario simulation engine step-by-step
  - use C++ and OpenGL to render customized debugging information
4. Design several DevTools
  - full-stack metrics web-app to display 10m datapoints
  - CI/CD workflows maintenance
  - HD-map to training adapter tool

### Software Engineer @ Pony.ai
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Fremont, California, United States

### Software Engineer Internship @ IBM
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Chengdu, Sichuan, China


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
The George Washington University

### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Southwest Jiaotong University


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-29