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Hardy Lou - Senior Software Engineer in Santa Clara, CA

Hardy Lou

Senior Software Engineer specializing in front-end architecture and enterprise web apps

TikTokUC San DiegoSanta Clara, CA10 Years ExperienceSenior LevelWorks On-Site

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Frontend-leaning product engineer with strong full-stack collaboration experience across TikTok and Rivian, owning complex internal platforms from concept to production. Stands out for combining product thinking with technical depth: led a high-impact reporting platform initiative that materially increased adoption and CSAT, and also incubated an AI lead-research agent from scratch without a PM.

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Key Strengths

  • End-to-end product ownership from discovery through launch and on-call support
  • Led cross-functional engineering delivery with 3 engineers on Project Chameleon
  • Strong product sense backed by user research with analysts, sales reps, and factory technicians
  • Creative problem-solving in Google Sheets/Slides preview architecture under auth constraints
  • Designed scalable React/TypeScript architectures with Context + Reducer and hook-based state management
  • Built real-time streaming UX using SSE, WebSockets, and virtualized rendering
  • Shaped API contracts and BFF layers to future-proof frontend/backend integration
  • Operated beyond frontend scope by co-creating and incubating an AI product without a PM
  • Drove measurable product impact: ARG adoption grew from 35% to 60% across 3,600 sales reps
  • Improved customer outcomes: CSAT increased from 2.7 to 4+ and monthly reports more than doubled
  • Expanded template ecosystem from 29 to 50+ public templates
  • Supported operational software used daily by 600-800 users and 15,000+ vehicle final approvals

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Experience

Senior Software EngineerTikTok · Nov 2022 – Present
Software EngineerRivian · Jul 2021 – Nov 2022
Software EngineerInformatica · Nov 2018 – Jun 2021
Software EngineerESPN · Jan 2016 – Sep 2018

Education

UC San Diegobachelor, Computer Science

Languages

English

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