Dion Lao
Software Engineer at Meta
United States
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Top SchoolDion Lao is a software engineer with eight years of experience building full-stack products across consumer growth, VR, and robotics, currently contributing to social growth features for Oculus at Meta. He blends strong backend and frontend skills—Python, Go, React Native and Hack—with applied machine learning from academic work in deep reinforcement learning for robotic path planning. Dion has driven measurable growth at Canva through experimentation and analytics, and has production experience in cloud SRE from a Google internship. His background spans research (CSIRO Data61), startups, and product teams, giving him a rare mix of academic rigor and shipping-first pragmatism. Outside core engineering he’s built tooling and automation—desktop, web and mobile apps—to streamline operations, and he’s an avid hackathon competitor who iterates quickly under pressure.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
St Joseph's College, Gregory TerraceEntrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies, Entrepreneurship/Entrepreneurial Studies at Dalian Neusoft University of InformationBachelor of Engineering (B.E.) / Information Technology (InfTech), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) / Information Technology (InfTech), Mechatronics, Robotics, and Automation Engineering at The University of QueenslandBachelor of Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering and Computer Science, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
English, Chinese, Chinese
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Github Skills (4)
dart6
flutter6
speech-to-text6
speech-recognition6
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
nunnsy/SmartMirror
Jul 2017 - Mar 2019
Contributions:58 pushes in 1 year 8 months
dioNode/onsite_diary
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:79 pushes, 11 branches in 15 days
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