Summary
Tao Chang is a veteran engineering leader with 12+ years building 0->1 products and scaling high-impact commerce and ads systems, currently leading engineering at Aledade after senior leadership at Facebook Marketplace. He has a proven track record turning small teams into mission-critical platforms—launching Shops on Marketplace, flash sales and boosted listings that helped grow Marketplace GMV 10x in six months and driving Ads Reporting adoption 10x over two years. Tao blends strong frontend systems expertise with product-focused execution, having started projects that expanded from two engineers to cross-functional teams of eight or more. Comfortable in both startup-style greenfield work and large-scale production environments, he repeatedly ships reliable, scalable tooling that unlocks new revenue channels. Based in Menlo Park, he pairs an MS in Information Management with deep experience across Yahoo, IBM and Facebook, and a background as a blogger and early adopter of isomorphic web architectures. Colleagues know him for turning ambiguous business problems into measurable engineering roadmaps that accelerate seller and advertiser success.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Information Management, Master's Information Management at National Taiwan University
English, Chinese