William Shiao
Head Of Engineering at Robo Robotics
Riverside, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWilliam Shiao is a Head of Engineering and PhD candidate in Computer Science with 11 years of experience building and scaling AI-driven products and infrastructure. He has blended deep research internships at Google, YouTube, Snap and Pinterest with hands-on startup experience as a founding ML engineer for a consumer learning product that reached 1M+ users, and now leads engineering at Robo Robotics. His background spans production-grade distributed systems, machine learning, and bioinformatics tooling, with a track record of shipping microservices, cost-saving ML prototypes, and high-throughput event processing. Bilingual in Mandarin and English, he pairs global leadership and risk-aware decision making with a penchant for mentoring and developing engineering teams. An academic who translates research into product impact, he brings both rigorous problem-solving from his PhD studies and practical startup execution to complex engineering challenges.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at University of California, RiversideHigh School, High School at International School of BeijingHigh School, High School at Palos Verdes Peninsula High School
English, Chinese
Github Skills (79)
nodejs-cli10
bash10
nodejs10
huggingface9
seafile-server9
ai8
extraction8
dependency-graph8
pixel8
coder7
svg7
pastebin7
jekyll7
llm7
open-source7
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
willshiao/time-saver
Oct 2016 - Feb 2025
A simple app to save time by calculating the amount of time saved/lost by automating a task.
Contributions:4 PRs, 6 pushes, 5 branches in 8 years 5 months
willshiao/smart-uri
Jul 2017 - Apr 2021
A smart URL shortener that redirects based on configurable rules.
Contributions:67 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 9 months
shortenerconfigurabletinyurlrulesurl-shortener
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