Summary
Tj Hsieh is a principal software developer and entrepreneur with 11 years of experience building and scaling B2B and B2C systems, now leading platform initiatives at TSMC. He founded two startups—one that grew to over 1M users and generated eight-figure annual revenue—and has a consistent record of turning product vision into repeatable growth, including establishing a new BU that delivered 2–3x YoY growth from 2020–2024. At OneDegree he scaled engineering from a handful to 10–20 people, shipped microservices and React-based portals, and launched an AI Copilot leveraging Azure OpenAI, RAG, embeddings, and Pinecone. Comfortable hands-on across front-end, back-end, cloud and ML-infused features, he pairs domain-driven architecture with product-focused roadmaps to accelerate time-to-market. Known for strong team documentation, hiring playbooks, and community-building (open-source projects and a technical blog with 10k+ monthly users), he blends entrepreneurial grit with operational discipline. Based in Taipei, he brings steadiness, intellectual curiosity, and a knack for turning ambiguous problems into scalable systems.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Electrical and Electronics Engineering at National Chiao Tung University
English