Haotao Lai
Staff Software Engineer at Qualcomm
Aurora, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolHaotao Lai is a Staff Software Engineer with a decade of experience building C/C++ systems, computer vision algorithms, CI/CD pipelines, and compiler backends across industry leaders including Qualcomm, IBM, and Huawei. He blends hands-on driver and model-deployment work with research-led algorithm implementation, having moved vision models to edge devices and reproduced academic papers into production-ready pipelines. At IBM he contributed to COBOL compiler backends and automated testing, reflecting a rare mix of low-level compiler expertise and modern ML/vision engineering. As a former TA in advanced C++ and compiler design, he pairs strong teaching experience with practical system design. Based in Aurora, Ontario, he holds an MSc in Computer Science from Concordia and maintains a technical portfolio at laihaotao.github.io. Colleagues describe him as someone who crosses the boundary between algorithm research and production engineering with a focus on reliability and deployability.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Computer Science Computer Science, Master of Computer Science Computer Science at Concordia UniversityBachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree Mechanical Engineering at Guangzhou University
Chinese, English, Chinese
Github Skills (83)
realsense10
in-app-purchase10
caffe10
intel10
siggraph10
darknet10
sdk10
kinect10
computer-vision10
payment-methods10
ncnn10
camera-api10
hardware10
keras10
onnx9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
laihaotao/laihaotao.github.io
Aug 2015 - Mar 2024
My personal website
Contributions:2 PRs, 295 pushes, 4 branches in 8 years 8 months
reactnextjs
laihaotao/COMP6421
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:27 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 2 months
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