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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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • Software Engineer

    2012 - 2012

    Created mock trading system.

  • Product Search, Software Engineer

    2011 - 2011

    Improving product search user experience and logging system.

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