Yimo Tao

About Yimo Tao

Coders for 20 years and combined 15+ years Facebook+Microsoft+SIEMENS experience, hands-on, hard-core, and versatile software R&D and technique leadership experience, and track record of shipping high quality product, and large-scale online service- Cloud Service and Distributed System R&D, DevOps, Technique and Team Leadership in Azure Identity, Bing, SharePoint Online (of Office 365), FB Scraping and Web Signal Extraction Service- AI & Big Data Dev Experience for Bing & Cortana: Search Relevance for Windows10 Apps Store, XBOX Multimedia, Bing Local, Cortana Personalized Recommendation- Hardcore AI Algorithm R&D: Machine Learning, Image Computing, Information Retrieval, Nature Language Processing.

Experience

1. Staff Software Engineer, Privacy & Security & Integrity Infra

   Meta

   Jan 2020 — Present · Bellevue, WA, US

   Security Infra -> Automated Access Management, RBAC, Identity Access ManagementPrivacy Infra - Techlead on building backend services for Meta\'s privacy aware infra. Building company-wise 0->1 Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC) platform, to govern Meta\'s every asset (code, data), and to meet a whole set of legal and privacy compliance requirements, including EU Digital Markets Act, Youth and Sensitive Data protections. See intro of Privacy Aware Infra work at https://about.fb.com/news/2024/01/investing-in-privacy/Business Integrity Org (Ads Review), Techlead on Web Scraping Service @FB - 2021 June-Drive and deliver 3X volume increase, 50%+ efficiency gains, 60%+ service quality SLO metric gain, 10X security compliance metric gain, Individually fixed top 1, 2 and 3 core server side errors (bad processes, timeout errors) that plagued the service for years, improving maturity level +2-Identify, define and lead a multi-halves migration effort for a core engine\'s disruptive major version upgrade by defining tech/feature evaluation framework, prototyping, comparable technology research, etc-Supports to deliver cross-org products impact for Feed Ranking, FB Shops, and many Integrity space, and more.

Education

• Southeast University

  B.E. & M.S., Biomedical Engineering & Computer Science

• Virginia Tech

  M.S. (Ph.D. Track Originally), Computer Engineering

Skills

• C#
• .net
• Big Data
• Matlab
• Visual Studio
• Data Mining
• Machine Learning
• Programming
• Optimization
• Software Development
• Python
• Algorithm Design
• Computer Science
• Mapreduce
• C++
• Computer Vision
• Natural Language Processing
• Information Retrieval
• Scalability
• Pattern Recognition
• Databases
• Data Science
• Healthcare IT
• Data Analysis
• Image Processing
• Algorithms