Otto Chiu is a seasoned software engineering manager with 11 years of experience leading large-scale, performance-sensitive systems across consumer and automotive domains. Currently heading WhatsApp Calling Emerging Platforms at Facebook, he builds end-to-end calling experiences for Windows, Mac, KaiOS and other devices that can reach billions of users. His background spans ads infrastructure at Facebook (handling millions of events/sec and low-latency reach estimation), OTA and firmware toolchains at Rivian, and embedded/diagnostic systems at Tesla and St. Jude Medical. Otto pairs hands-on systems and firmware expertise (C/C++, Python, embedded protocols) with people leadership, having grown and managed teams from startups to hyperscale infrastructure. He thrives on hard reliability and latency constraints and has a track record of turning complex, safety- or revenue-critical problems into production-ready tooling and services. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, he combines deep technical breadth with a talent for shipping practical solutions across diverse platforms.
11 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
BA Computer Science, BA Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
MS Software Engineering, MS Software Engineering at California State University, Fullerton
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Otto Chiu - Software Engineering Manager (WhatsApp Calling)