Tongbo Huang
Founder of Sidr Tax
San Francisco Bay Area
Overview
Work Experience
Founder
2023 - Current
Sidr Tax is a fully managed US sales tax solution. Automate your sales tax returns.
Sidr Tax is a sales tax solutions provider that offers automated US sales tax monitoring, registration, collection, and filing services.
Engineering Manager
2020 - 2023
Manage the Core Analytics team, responsible for Amplitude Analytics chart visualizations and dataset endpoints. New product features built under my management include: Insights and Anomaly Detection, Root Cause Analysis, Chart and Event Monitoring, Metrics Objects, Object Managment Center and Catalog Analysis.
Amplitude is a product intelligence platform that provides digital product tools that help teams run and grow their businesses.
Raised $311,475,000.00 from Covenant Venture Capital.
Co-Founder
2019 - 2020
No code app builder. Our users use our tool to build Zendesk, Salesforce, and Slack apps without an engineering background. Part of the YC W19 batch. Tech stack: Nodejs, MongoDB, Kubernetes, AWS, Botkit.
Software Engineer, Tech Lead
2017 - 2018
Data Infrastructure Built data engineering from ground up, scale to 8 team members. First member on data engineering and built Checkr data infrastructure including Presto query engine, Airflow workflow scheduling engine, Jupyter notebook service and a lot more. Eng blog: https://hackernoon.com/how-checkr-built-scalable-data-infrastructure-in-a-few-months-6b736b01bd23 Data Driven Customer Success Established data driven customer success process with value proposition metrics, product feature impact analysis customized for customers, automated call to actions and reporting with Gainsight and Looker.
Checkr is a software company that automates and speeds up the process of professional background checks.
Raised $678,999,991.00 from Irving Investors.
Monetization, Tech lead
2013 - 2017
I'm the founding member of the Pinterest monetization team and worked on critical components including both advertiser facing product and internal serving system. I screened and helped onboard many talents and saw the team grow from ten to sixty. I worked as a tech lead on new ads formats, creating new ad units and bring them up to speed through new ad ranking techniques. My past projects include: Pinterest Analytics First engineer worked on the new Pinterest organic analytics tool. Built MapReduce daily data processing pipeline, api endpoints, and web application. Product link: https://analytics.pinterest.com/ Eng blog: https://medium.com/pinterest-engineering/behind-the-pins-building-analytics-f7b508cdacab Cinematic Pin First interactive ad unit on Pinterest. Built up serving and reporting. Media coverage: http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/wendys-joins-pinterest-movement-these-cool-cinematic-pins-165238 App install ads Led the creation of app install ads with focus on conversions. Created first conversion optimized campaign type at Pinterest. Significantly improved return on ads spend. Media coverage: http://www.adweek.com/digital/pinterest-is-now-offering-app-install-ads-to-all-marketers-will-it-see-sales-growth-like-facebook-and-google/ User feature framework Built and maintain user feature generation and serving framework for ads. Responsible for user feature reliability and mentor user feature engineers. Offline candidate generation Pioneered hybrid approach to generate ads candidates both online and offline. Significantly increased clickthrough rate and currently under heavy investment by ads ranking team. Data infrastructure Built UI component of open-sourced interactive workflow management tool: Pinball. Project link: https://github.com/pinterest/pinball Responsible for data infrastructure component maintenance including Hadoop, Hive, Redshift.
Pinterest is a visual bookmarking tool for saving and discovering creative ideas.
Raised $1,486,100,000.00 from Elliott Investment Management and Elliott Investment Management.
Software Engineer
2012 - 2012
Created mock trading system.
DRW is a diversified trading firm that combines technology, research, and risk management to capture trading and investment opportunities.
Product Search, Software Engineer
2011 - 2011
Improving product search user experience and logging system.
Google is a multinational corporation that specializes in Internet-related services and organizes the world’s information.
Raised $26,100,000.00 from Angel Investors LP, Kleiner Perkins, Signatures Capital, Sequoia Capital, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Shaquille O'Neal, Henry Kissinger, Google and Tiger Woods.