Summary
Tao Xu is a results-driven software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance mobile and on-device ML systems for large tech companies, currently contributing to Apple Intelligence on image generation and Stable Diffusion models. He has led cross-functional efforts at Meta to ship Meta’s next-gen Ads SDK and pioneered the PyTorch iOS runtime and CoreML backend, delivering GPU-accelerated inference and 30%+ model speedups. At Alibaba he scaled iOS teams and engineered a server-driven UI that cut app size and improved developer efficiency substantially, while at Capital One he focused on mobile SDK quality. Tao blends deep systems and ML tooling expertise with hands-on Swift and iOS platform engineering, and consistently ranks as a top code contributor in large organizations. Unusually for an engineer at this level, he has both shipped consumer-facing infrastructure at massive scale and authored key open-source runtime components for mobile ML.
11 years of coding experience