I turn complex business goals into scalable systems,
strong engineering organizations, and repeatable execution.
🏢 Engineering leader with 10+ years of experience, including 8+ years at TikTok (ByteDance)
🌍 Built global consumer, creator, and search experiences, alongside local-services, merchant, and transaction platforms
🏗️ Focused on platform scale, reliability, data-driven product decisions, measurable business outcomes, and AI-enabled engineering productivity
📍 Sunnyvale, USA
- Technical strategy — Defined mobile and frontend technical direction for a multi-market local-services business, translating market and transaction goals into roadmaps, architecture decisions, and reusable platform investments.
- Organization design — Built and operated a four-team, 40+ person engineering organization through four direct Tech Lead Managers and domain owners, with clear accountability from strategy to execution; developed 10+ Staff and Tech Lead leaders across departments.
- Capacity and prioritization — Owned resource allocation and delivery priorities across market launches, transaction-critical flows, reliability, and platform foundations, balancing near-term business commitments with long-term architecture.
- Talent systems — Served on TikTok's frontend promotion committee and owned hiring, leveling, and succession planning for an organization of approximately 50 people.
- Led end-to-end delivery for TikTok Local Services: in-app transactions, merchant app and platform, affiliate and service-provider ecosystems, and internal operations systems
- Delivered global transaction platforms and reduced transaction latency from 1.7s to 0.6s
- Built reliability systems achieving 99.99% SLA; reduced CI time by 51%
- Led AI-enabled engineering adoption, improving unit-test development efficiency by 70%+
- TikTok Local Services — Consumer transactions, merchant tools, affiliate and service-provider ecosystems, and operations platforms.
- Helo, BuzzVideo, TopBuzz, and Lemon8 — Global consumer products spanning content, creator, search, growth, and platform capabilities.
Most of this work powers live products and internal platforms, so detailed architecture and operating metrics are not publicly shareable.
Product & engineering leadership · Global consumer and commerce products · Multi-market technical strategy · Organization design · Data-informed prioritization
Engineering systems · Client, frontend, and transaction architecture · Hybrid / WebView platforms · Reliability and observability · Performance engineering · Developer productivity and CI/CD · AI-enabled SDLC
