Summary
Hao L is a Senior Software Engineer in the San Francisco Bay Area with 11 years of experience building scalable front-end and full-stack web applications, currently leading the YouTube Living Room homepage and satisfaction efforts. He brings deep expertise in modern front-end technologies (React, Ember, Webpack) and client-side performance optimization, alongside backend skills in Node.js and Python frameworks like Django and Tornado. Hao couples product-minded UI/UX design sensibilities with practical ops knowledge—Apache/Nginx, cloud platforms (AWS, Heroku), and database modeling across SQL and NoSQL. An entrepreneur and open-source author (srt.js, china-stock, plus apps like WordMark), he moves comfortably between prototype to production and has a track record of shipping personalization, ML-driven discovery, and internal tooling at scale.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems and Services, Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.), Management Information Systems and Services at New York University
Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Polymer Materials and Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering (BE), Polymer Materials and Engineering at Sun Yat-Sen University
Chinese, English