Austin Chiang is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience delivering data-intensive, scalable systems for large-scale platforms. He currently builds product infrastructure at Zip in the San Francisco Bay Area, shaping end-to-end data ingestion, storage, and API delivery. Previously at Plaid, he worked on the online financial data stack and orchestration frameworks, and at Facebook on the social graph query language (EntQL), influencing billions of queries per second. At Instagram, he led wellbeing initiatives, designing hashtag safety infrastructure and core integrity features to curb policy violations and spam. His early career includes internships at Uber, Bloomberg, Kik, and Pivotal, giving him a broad view of mobile, ML, and data engineering across startups and tech giants. He earned a Bachelor's in Software Engineering from the University of Waterloo, grounding his work in a solid formal foundation.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
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