Product Engineering // Frontend Architecture
Roderick
Hsiao
Product engineering consultant specializing in frontend infrastructure, design systems, and large-scale application development for global startups and Fortune 500 companies.
CAREER LOG // STILL SHIPPING
Career & Highlights
Experience
- Decades in product engineering.
- Startup to Fortune 500 range.
Leadership
- Frontend infra & design systems.
- Team technical mentorship.
Impact
- Serving millions of users.
- Architecting for extreme scale.
Community
- International tech speaker.
- Open web & OSS advocate.
The Chronicle
Jan 2023 – PresentRemoteFounding Engineer
One of the first engineers — owned frontend architecture and core product development at the early stage of the company.
Kindred
Built the full frontend architecture from scratch, shipped core product features, established engineering standards, and integrated AI tooling into the development workflow.
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Product Engineering Consultant
Product engineering consultant specializing in AI adoption, frontend architecture design, team and individual mentorship, PWA and performance optimization, and career coaching.
Alt Platform
Frontend and web engineering mentor — best practices, tooling, and career direction. Built a performance enhancement roadmap and an SEO improvement strategy. Architected the instrumentation layer and drove code modularization across the platform.
It's time to invest in what you love. ALT gives you access to utility and liquidity like never before.
Forethought (acquired by Zendesk in 2026)
Led the company-wide rebrand project including a full CSS system overhaul. Architected persistent state management for the web widget. Shipped performance improvements across the platform. Provided ongoing tech mentorship to the engineering team.
Improve your customer experience by using AI.
Public Speaker
Delivered technical presentations on Progressive Web Applications, web performance optimization, and large-scale web application architecture at international conferences and industry events.
Talks & Demos
Feb 2017 – Jan 2023Palo Alto, CAPrincipal Software Engineer
Principal engineer for tinder.com — led the web platform's technical architecture serving tens of millions of daily active users worldwide.
Tinder Online
Led technical architecture and development of Tinder's flagship web platform at tinder.com. Architected scalable frontend solutions serving millions of daily active users worldwide.
With 55 billion matches to date, Tinder® is the world's most popular dating app, making it the place to meet new people.
Tinder Swipe Life
Developed and launched Tinder's lifestyle magazine platform, creating engaging content experiences for the dating community.
Talks & Demos
- Production Progressive Web Apps With JavaScript Frameworks (Google I/O 2017)
- Fast By Default: Modern Loading Best Practices (Chrome Dev Summit 2017)
- Adaptive Loading - Improving web performance on slow devices (Chrome Dev Summit 2019)
- PWA patterns for window and service worker communication (Chrome Dev Summit 2020)
- SMS OTP form best practices (Chrome Dev Summit 2020)
Jul 2016 – Jan 2017Palo Alto, CASoftware Engineer
Built frontend infrastructure and engineering practices for Branch's deep-linking platform.
Branch Dashboard and Solutions
Architected frontend infrastructure, established engineering best practices, and implemented website performance optimizations for deep linking platform.
Number 1 in deep linking. Integrate robust, durable links into email, SEM, ads and other traditional marketing channels for improved app growth.
Nov 2009 – Jul 2016Taipei, Taiwan · Sunnyvale, CASenior Software Engineer
Over six years at Yahoo across multiple product lines — mobile homepage, weather, news digest, quality engineering, and one of the world's most-visited single-page applications.
Homepage
Engineered one of the world's most visited single-page applications, serving millions of users across desktop, tablet, and mobile platforms. Developed reusable UI components, utilities, and Node.js libraries.
A new welcome to Yahoo. The new Yahoo experience makes it easier to discover the news and information that you care about most. It's the web ordered for you.
Weather
Enhanced Yahoo Weather platform using isomorphic React architecture, delivering seamless user experiences across all devices.
Prepare for your day with the most accurate hourly, 5-day, and 10-day forecasts. Stunning Flickr photos match your location, time of day, and current conditions.
News Digest
Developed web platform for Yahoo News Digest, enabling improved SEO performance and deep linking capabilities for the popular mobile application content.
Yahoo News Digest provides a definitive summary of all the important, need-to-know news. Digests are delivered twice a day - once in the morning and once in the evening.
Mobile Homepage
Piloted innovative single-page application architecture for Yahoo mobile homepage, focusing on user-perceived performance enhancements and mobile optimization.
APAC Mobile Homepage (Taiwan and Hongkong)
Led a cross-functional team of 5 developers to architect and deliver comprehensive content consumption experiences for Asian Pacific markets.
提供最方便的網站搜尋、即時新聞、生活資訊和Yahoo奇摩服務入口。
2012 Presidential Election - Control Room
Architected and developed Control Room, a comprehensive tablet application providing real-time election coverage with curated content and original reporting from leading news sources.
Yahoo's Control Room has live streaming video, coverage and maps of all House, Senate and Gubernatorial races, as well as the Presidential race results down to the county level, live blogging and live polling and social sentiment analysis.
2012 Presidential Election - #Hashout
Developed #Hashout, an innovative online talk show platform designed to engage diverse perspectives and facilitate meaningful political conversations during the election cycle.
Online talk show for Yahoo 2012 Presidential Election.
Global News
Architected unified platform serving all Yahoo properties globally. Led frontend testing strategy, framework development, and test automation infrastructure.
Browse latest news on Yahoo News.
Project Manager/Engineer Lead
Mandatory military service — designed and developed web-based training simulators for military education, and managed a team of 6 engineers.
Equipment Simulator
Designed and developed two web-based training applications for military education purposes. Managed and mentored a team of 6 personnel in building educational simulator software solutions.