# Yanhao Wang > Staff iOS Engineer | Mobile Monetization & User Growth Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yanhao ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox Jan 2024 – Present | San Mateo, California, United States At Roblox, I work on the Discovery UX team, delivering cross-platform experiences across iOS, Android, Desktop, VR, and Console. I drove multiple high-impact features through cross-organizational collaboration that improved user experience, engagement, and retention. Examples include video thumbnails for games, fiat game purchases, and Charts page deep-links, along with other initiatives that expanded growth. In addition, I refined Homepage logging instrumentation for the ML pipeline, resulting in more reliable model training and more accurate game recommendations. ### Staff Software Engineer @ NewsBreak Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | Mountain View, California, United States Head of iOS Monetization. Directed a high-performing Ads client engineering team to modernize bidding, enhance user experience, and safeguard ad quality, achieving significant revenue growth and stronger advertiser trust. ### Software Engineer @ Facebook Jan 2015 – Jan 2021 | California, United States - Tech lead 4 full-time iOS engineers on Story Feedback team. - Drove multiple high impact Story Feedback projects from scratch to launch. - Increased Story Feedback team's iOS test coverage from 10% to 80%. - Launched several Profile growth projects, which helped Profile team grow core metrics rapidly. ### Research Assistant @ Syracuse University Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 I am working as the research assistant in Syracuse University to help my advisor with the Emotion Map project, which is a mobile social system for improving emotion awareness and regulation. Besides, I also work on another program about developing plug-ins for Chrome to solve existed accessibility problems. - Developed an iPhone app named EmptionMap to collect the people's published emotion trend as the data for paper to study. - Tested and analyzed the plug-ins for Chrome that are used to fix the accessibility of the website. ### Teaching Assistant @ Syracuse University Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 I was working as a teaching assistant of Professor Chapin's course CIS 657: Principles of Operating Systems. The course link is https://sites.google.com/site/cis657fall2014. The course is to taught the principles, algorithms and the structures used in the FreeBSD. I designed the labs in which students need to modify FreeBSD source code to finish specific tasks and write the lab report. Also I taught the principles and detail for labs and grade student assignments. ### Intern @ Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 I worked as an intern in Chinese Academy of Agricultural Mechanization Sciences (CAAMS) in summer vacation of 2011. CAAMS is the research Institute that focus on solving agricultural and energy reuse problems. During that period, I engaged in a R&D project on sewage treatment equipment. - Implemented a simulation and monitoring system of the sewage treatment equipment using the Siemens simulation software. - Designed the log-in interface, animation on the main interface, information and control interface and complicated configuration interface. ## Education ### Master of Science (MS) in Computer Science Syracuse University Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 ### Bachelor of Science (BS) in Computer Science Tsinghua University Jan 2009 – Jan 2013 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yanhaowang --- Source: https://flows.cv/yanhao JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yanhao/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-23