About Me

I'm Tao, a software engineer with over 13 years of experience in Apple and iOS development. I specialize in the Apple ecosystem and on-device machine learning. Currently, I’m an ML engineer at Apple, working on Apple Intelligence focused on image generation. Previously, I worked at Meta and Alibaba.

  • Apple | ML Engineer 04/2025 - Present
    • Image Generation, Stale Diffusion models, on-device ML
    • Apple Intelligence, ML frameworks
    • iOS/MacOS runtime, Swift optimizations
  • Facebook | Staff Software Engineer 04/2019 - 01/2025
    • Monetization, Ads signal, iOS SDK
    • Developer Infrastructure, iOS DevX, Toolings
    • AI Infrastructure, On-Device ML, PyTorch
  • Alibaba Group | Senior Staff Software Engineer | Engineer Manager 02/2012 - 09/2017
    • Alipay iOS, O2O, Server-side driven UI framework
    • Taobao iOS, mobile infrastructure, debugging tools

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