Summary
Tom Yang is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building developer tooling and runtime-quality features at scale. Currently at Meta, he focuses on the Hack type-checker, end-to-end debugging UX, and LLDB integrations, bringing deep expertise in language tooling and low-level debugging. His background includes internships at Google, Facebook, and Bloomberg, reflecting strong foundations from his Software Engineering education at the University of Waterloo. Known for improving developer productivity, he blends systems-level thinking with practical UX improvements that help teams ship safer code.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Computer Science at University of Waterloo