# Yutao Hou

> Building products to empower nurses and healthcare professionals

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/yutaohou

Love programming, aim at making some products which can improve people's lives.
Many years of professional programming experience. Quick learner. Always take the initiative to improve the code.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer - Full stack tech lead @ LinkedIn
Jan 2020 – Present
Tech lead of LTS Segment team, building products to empower nurses and healthcare professionals

### Staff Software Engineer - Android @ LinkedIn
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Software Engineer - Android @ LinkedIn
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer Internship @ Facebook
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025
•	Improved HW(hardware) order user interface, greatly reducing the data input time and preventing human errors.
•	Migrated HW request to async processing to accelerates the order process, eliminated human interaction and hence the process delay.
•	Created logging and alarms for above system, to provide automatic monitoring. 
•	Onboarded 2nd vendor for HW request, designed a scalable database to further support future vendors.

### Sr. Software Engineer & Android Team Lead @ EF Education First
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 | Shanghai City, China
Led Android team to design and develop English-education APP.
• Built a new App on Android phone with high scalability and reusability.
• Led Android team to develop and maintain Android tablet App.
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ef.efekta.englishtown

### Sr. Software Engineer & Android Team Lead @ Dianping
Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 | Shanghai City, China
Led Android team to develop and maintain APPs for over 40 million users.
• Led Android team to develop DIANPING Android APPs and released about 3 major versions and      
  more than 10 minor versions.
• My team got “The team of 2012” award for releasing version 5.0, the most important release, and 
  bringing millions of new users.
• Reduced the size of Android Apk by 20% and got the “Award of Ownership” for this optimization.
• https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dianping.v1

### Senior Software Engineer @ BenQ Qisda corporation
Jan 2008 – Jan 2010 | Suzhou, Jiangsu, China
Developed and maintained Multimedia APPs on Android and BREW platforms.
• Developed Android apps: Contact, VideoPlayer, BREW app: File Manager in C.
• Outstanding job performance A+ (The best of the department).


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Software Engineering
San José State University

### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Applied Physics
Southeast University


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-12