Hi, I’m Howard
Hi, I’m Howard
ABOUT ME
Hi! My name is Howard Tang or Hao Tang. I am a Senior Full-stack Engineer with startup founding experience, hands-on across architecture, frontend and backend development, and AI system design. Experienced with TypeScript-based web development, primarily NestJS on the backend and Next.js on the frontend, with additional experience in Python FastAPI. Familiar with AWS cloud services and building LLM-powered applications from planning layer to production infrastructure.
WORK
Feb. 2024 — Jun. 2026
Co-Founder & Full-Stack Engineer
BeyondBrain
- Co-founded BeyondBrain, leading development and system architecture for both Lumi and FifthKeys, taking product concepts to production and helping secure seed funding.
- Grew and mentored a cross-functional engineering team, established engineering practices, and hired 6 engineers.
Jun. 2021 — Feb. 2024
Full-Stack Engineer
MixerBox
- Joined as the company's first full-stack engineer, helping establish engineering standards, interview processes, and scalable development practices as the engineering organization grew.
- Built frontend, backend, and AI services for MixerBox ChatAI, Pay, and ID, and maintained production reliability through monitoring, incident response, and on-call support.
Jul. 2020 — Feb. 2021
IT Intern
Funpodium
- Built internal tooling and customer-facing web applications, including an IAM-inspired administration platform, a custom CMS, and React applications.
Jul. 2019 — Jun. 2020
IT Intern
Gridwell
- Developed operational dashboards and reporting tools for Taipower's internal operations team, improving visibility through reliable data pipelines and analytics.
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PROJECTS
BeyondBrain
Lumi
AI Travel Booking & Discovery Platform
Architect an AI travel platform integrating LLMs with live OTA inventory and POI discovery.
Isolating non-deterministic AI generation from deterministic booking execution to ensure transaction reliability.
250K+
Requests / Day
BeyondBrain
FifthKeys
AI-Powered Hotel Property Management System
Design the relational data model and RBAC backend for a real-time hospitality management platform.
Guaranteeing strict transactional consistency across inventory availability, reservations, and dynamic pricing.
+20%
Occupancy Rate
MixerBox
MixerBox ChatAI
Multi-Modal AI Assistant Platform
Build the backend workflow orchestration and APIs for a production-grade AI assistant.
Engineering robust fallbacks for LLM hallucinations, API timeouts, and context failures at massive scale.
2.4M+
Requests / Day
9,000
Peak RPM
MixerBox
MixerBox Pay
Instant Checkout & Payment-Link Platform
Engineer a digital commerce checkout workflow capable of handling sudden flash sales.
Using DynamoDB Transactions to maintain strict inventory consistency and prevent overselling during massive traffic spikes.
100%
Transaction Safety
MixerBox
MixerBox ID
Centralized Authentication & Identity Service
Build a centralized authentication, identity, and user-management service.
Designing scalable, secure, and universally applicable identity infrastructure across a diverse product ecosystem.
1M+
Active Users
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SKILLS
Programming
TypeScript
JavaScript
Python
SQL
C++
Frontend & Backend
React.js
Next.js
Node.js
NestJS
FastAPI
Database
PostgreSQL
DynamoDB
MongoDB
Cloud & DevOps
AWS (ECS, EKS, RDS, DynamoDB, CloudFront, Route53, CloudWatch)
Docker
GitHub Actions
Jenkins
AI & Product
LLM-powered applications
AI workflow design
AI agents
AI-assisted dev (Claude Code, Cursor)
Spoken
English (Professional)
Mandarin (Native)
EDUCATION
Sep. 2017 — May 2021
B.S. in Computer Science and Information Engineering
National Taiwan University
- Teaching Assistant for Algorithms — designing and grading coursework and holding office hours.
- General Coordinator of NTU CSIE Camp, leading planning and execution of a department-wide event.
Sep. 2014 — Jun. 2017
High School
Taipei Municipal Chien Kuo High School
- Elected Class Outstanding Student in 11th grade (certificate).
- Won the national Team Gold Medal at the 18th TRML National High School Mathematics Competition in 12th grade (certificate, news).
FEATURED
他 23 歲月領 14 萬！ MixerBox 如何煉就超狂全端開發者，讓新鮮人就能主導新產品線開發？
Oct 6, 2022
7 min read
CONTACT
GitHub
LeetCode
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