Summary
Hao Huang is a Software Development Engineer at Zillow with 11 years of full-stack experience building scalable web applications and developer-facing tooling. He combines front-end expertise (React, Redux, Vue) with backend systems in Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, MySQL and Linux, and has improved performance and reliability through indexing, caching, CI and test automation. Hao founded an online education startup, CodingAlpaca, teaching backend development to 400+ students, and has a track record of accelerating product metrics—e.g., growing a site from 10K to 1M monthly views. His background spans site reliability work and production automation, including Nginx deployment scripts and web scrapers that cut data collection from 24 hours to 30 seconds. Based in Irvine, CA, he blends hands-on engineering with instructional experience and a sociology-to-CS academic path that informs pragmatic, user-centered designs.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate's degree, Computer Information System, Associate's degree, Computer Information System at De Anza College
Bachelor's degree, Sociology, Bachelor's degree, Sociology at National Taiwan University
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of California, Davis