# Tao W.

> Software Engineer at Oodle

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

Software engineer and architect with 15+ years of experience in design and development of large-scale distributed systems, data-intensive applications, low-latency APIs and high-impact products.

Adaptable technology leader who thrives in companies in various stages. Demonstrated achievements in scaling backend services, migrating legacy monolith applications to modern event-driven microservices, operating and evolving one of the largest search systems in the world, and driving first customer wins.

Track record of leading large and small teams to execute complex cross-functional projects with great precision.

Approachable leader passionate about mentoring and developing high-performance cohesive teams.

Expertise: AWS, Microservices, Distributed Systems, Serverless, Data Infrastructure, Data Pipeline, Stream Process, Search Engine, Java, Python, C++, Node.js, MySQL, DynamoDB, Kafka, Redis, Cloud Infrastructure, Terraform, CloudFormation, Container

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Oodle AI
Jan 2024 – Present

### Staff Software Engineer @ Snowflake
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Lead Software Engineer @ Roku Inc.
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Sr. Software Development Engineer @ Amazon
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
* Search Infrastructure
* Alexa Shopping

### Staff Software Engineer @ Tabula
Jan 2007 – Jan 2013


## Education
### Master of Science (M.S.) in Geographic Information Systems
The Ohio State University

### Ph.D. Candidate in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Portland State University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/want88

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Last updated: 2026-04-05