Sophia Tao
Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolSophia Tao is a software engineer in Seattle with eight years of experience focused on scalability, performance, and distributed systems, currently working on data for ads at Google. She brings hands-on expertise from internships at Facebook and Optimizely where she built performance tooling and high-volume distributed systems, and she has a strong academic foundation teaching data structures, concurrent systems, and discrete math at McMaster. Her background blends practical production experience with pedagogy and research—she’s an NSERC-funded student researcher and former university tutor—so she communicates complex system design clearly to both engineers and students. Comfortable navigating large-scale data challenges, she pairs performance-first engineering with an educator’s attention to detail and clarity.
8 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Honours Integrated Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Honours Integrated Science at McMaster University
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Github Skills (17)
numerical-analysis6
aws-step-functions6
react6
aws-lambda6
cas6
jquery6
javascript6
react-native6
symbolic-computation4
mathematics4
computer-algebra3
bitcoin3
computer-algebra-system3
math3
painter2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
sophiatao/mhacksx
Sep 2017 - Oct 2017
Contributions:39 commits, 20 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
sophiatao/yhack2017
Dec 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:24 commits, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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