# Yu-Liang (Thomas) Hsu > Software Engineer at Vanta Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/yuliang Full-stack software engineer who’s passionate about new technologies and have a lot of experience in web development (Typescript, React, Javascript). ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta Jan 2024 – Present | New York City Metropolitan Area ### Senior Software Engineer @ Level Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States Full stack software engineer on the Employer Dashboard team. • Led the Action Framework project which was designed to provide employers guidance throughout the product lifecycle in the dashboard. Collaborated with our backend partner in designing the full stack solution. Worked closely with product and design on scoping out MVP as well as the north star goal. • Shipped the employer dashboard V2 experience, a huge overhaul of our core product, which supports more granular filtering on members, displaying more detailed information and finer control over report searching. • Led the termination workflow project in designing and shipping the full stack solution which supports terminating individual members in the employer dashboard. ### Experienced Software Engineer @ Plaid Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States Full stack software engineer on the Transfer/Payments team. • Led the implementation checklist project which was designed to create a smoother onboarding experience when customers sign up for our product. Worked closely with cross functional partners on clarifying requirements and dependencies and was able to figure out a path forward to hit a super tight release timeline. • Worked on a completely new Transfer product that aims for higher conversion and better returning user experience. Designed and built the data model and the new service which is responsible for handling all the traffic. • Investigated and fixed some ongoing issues with the existing billing system and helped scope and implement new billing requirements that were needed for several new products we were launching. • Worked closely with our designer on bringing feature parity to our customer facing dashboard which allows customers to see their Transfer activities and details. ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States Full stack software engineer on Transfer (ex-Paper engineer) • Migrated the frontend upload library for Dropbox Transfer from a legacy library to a modern library with support for parallel uploads. Drastically improved the p75 upload speed for 50% while keeping the upload success rate flat. • Led the Spaces desktop app project and successfully shipped it to internal alpha users. Did the initial tech spike, took all the learnings from building the Paper desktop app, prototyped it and then came up with a design/architecture/plan. Worked with the team off of the plan, built all the basic features, build and update system and an exception/debug logger and shipped it on time. • Worked on the Paper desktop app, an Electron-based app, and helped the team ship the app to external beta users. Implemented several features that brought the app to feature parity with the web app, came up with the roll out plan and successfully shipped it to external beta users. • Built the Paper and Slack integration app that allows users to link their Paper accounts with Slack accounts so that they can create/search for Paper docs right in the Slack channel via slash commands and see rich unfurls when they paste Paper links. This app is featured in Slack’s annual developer conference and got over 10K users after launched. • Ran several experiments encouraging Dropbox Business Team users to invite their teammates to Paper. Deployed as part of Paper onboarding, and then on the Paper home page. ### Software Development Intern @ Quid Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | San Francisco, California, United States • Analyzed Wikipedia dataset (12GB compressed dump file) by implementing ETL (extract, transform, load) method using Spark and indexed all the results in Elasticsearch (160GB) for data science team to use • Built a complete stack for this Wikipedia analysis service from scratch by leveraging Quid’s in-house infrastructure tools and Vagrant cookbooks ### Engineering Intern @ Wantoto Inc. Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Taipei, Taiwan • As a iOS developer • Implemented the UI of the internal social network, contacts and report viewing system of a native (Objective-C) iPad app called Dr. Pad which is built for doctors in National Taiwan University Hospital, using iOS native UIkit and autolayout system to provide a fast and responsive user interface • Managed over 1300 iPads for clients including installing app, pushing configurations via MDM server and also maintaining the MDM server ## Education ### Master of Science (M.S.) in Software Engineering Carnegie Mellon University Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) in Information Management National Taiwan University Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thomasyh --- Source: https://flows.cv/yuliang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/yuliang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22