# Tom Liao

> Software Engineer at Squint, Ex-Slack

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Squint
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Slack
Jan 2020 – Jan 2025
Redesigned and implemented key components of Slack's internal dashboard-based alerting mechanism, significantly increasing success rate.

Engineered solutions to critical reliability issues with a self-serve table creation tool, reducing user escalations and minimizing disruption to data workflows.

Led 3 summer interns through the development of a Data Lineage tool and enabling automated notifications for upstream table changes, significantly reducing the Data Ingestion team’s toil.

Developed and instructed the Data@Slack: Foundations course, introducing new engineers to essential data concepts and tools.

### Software Consultant & Developer @ Atomic Object
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Ann Arbor, MI
Developed a new onboarding flow for Lippert Components Inc.’s C# Xamarin.Forms smart RV mobile app, streamlining the user experience.

Ported pre-existing C firmware code for Ardica’s hydrogen fuel cell battery into a new architecture and introduced agile development practices to their team.

Created a React Native mobile app and Java Spring server for Tespo’s IoT vitamin dispenser while mentoring a junior developer and managing both the client and the project.

Rewrote the Michigan Lottery website in TypeScript with React, Node, and GraphQL, integrated a variety of legacy data sources and Contentful to ease website administration, and created a scalable system to award prizes to over 10,000 daily visitors.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Sunrun
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 595 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105
Led the development and launch of Sunrun’s iPad sales application using Objective-C, adopted by Sunrun's sales teams and increasing leads collection and conversion rates.

### Software Engineer @ Sunrun
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 | 595 Market St. San Francisco, CA 94105
Guided the JavaScript Backbone frontend architecture for pricing software.

Developed Java web application platform to enable rapid response to changing market and business conditions by pricing engineers.

Supported pricing engineers by creating and maintaining utility tools written in Python.

Worked with product managers as a technical team lead for several key initiatives.

### Technical Intern @ Cisco Systems
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | San Jose, CA
Developed modular software to monitor various metrics of wireless LAN controllers, Linux and Windows systems. 

Scripted a web interface to a database-backed device manager.

Redesigned database back-end for more intuitive data storage.

### Instructor @ SMART Education Center
Jan 2009 – Jan 2009 | San Gabriel, CA
Taught pre-calculus and physics to local high school students.

### Instructor @ SMART Education Center
Jan 2007 – Jan 2007 | San Gabriel, CA
Taught pre-calculus and prepped local high school students for SAT II mathematics.


## Education
### B.S. in B.A., Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Applied Mathematics
University of California, Berkeley

### Claremont High School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vicros0716

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Last updated: 2026-04-10