# William Tang

> Founding Engineer at Treehouse

Location: Oakland, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/williamtang

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Treehouse
Jan 2022 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Staff Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech lead for the Hiring Intelligence Recommendations team. We provide insights and recommendations that streamline the hiring process.
- Smart Suggestions: entity suggestions that guide users through talent pool definition
- Candidate Similarity Insights: drawing connections between hiring candidates and illustrating them to sourcers
- Recommended Matches: identifying hiring pipeline characteristics and recommending relevant candidates

### Senior Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2018 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
LinkedIn Talent Insights
- One of the founding engineers on the team
- Designed and implemented mid-tier services for manifesting metrics over standardized member/company/jobs data via faceted searches
- Conducted Talent Insights integration with LinkedIn Recruiter Search
- On-boarded engineers as the team grew from 3 to over 25

### Software Engineer @ LinkedIn
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Company Pages
- Designed and implemented offline, mid-tier, and frontend components of "Talent Brand Analytics"
- Implemented mid-tier and frontend piece for V3 Career Page Admin Analytics
- Designed and implemented tracking ecosystem for monitoring user engagement

### Software Engineering Intern @ LinkedIn
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Full stack intern working on Recruiter inmails

### Software Engineering Intern @ Yahoo
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Began work for Yahoo following Lexity acquisition.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Lexity
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013
Worked on Lexity's back/middle-end; a grails web app that serves to extract and transform data from various e-commerce platforms into Lexity's own api accessible databases. Main project involved writing and integrating a validator for Google Shopping Feed files, which were used in several of Lexity's apps. Other projects include writing scripts to purge Lexity's databases of orphaned rows, and conducting frequent live issue fixes for various stores.

### Intern @ National Taiwan University
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010 | Taipei, Taiwan
Conducted optical measurement research in Laboratory of Precision Metrology and Instrumentation under Professor Kuang-Chao Fan.
Project involved assessing the feasibility of a high precision measurement process for transparent substances using a DVD pickup head.
Wrote formal research paper confirming measurement method and addressing practicality.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Electrical Engineering & Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-10