Summary
Ian Miao is a software engineer with nine years of experience building large-scale, production-grade systems at Google and YouTube, specializing in LLM-driven products and distributed data infrastructure. He has shipped AI-powered features like a YouTube Sidekick agent that combines Gemini models, dynamic tool use, and workflow orchestration for natural-language control of search and playback. At Google he contributed to exabyte-scale multi-homed data warehousing and consumer products across Google Home and Workspace, blending low-latency distributed systems with product-focused engineering. Based in Mountain View, he pairs deep systems expertise with a sharp product sense and a playful curiosity for experimenting with large language models. Currently expanding his leadership and AI credentials through executive and engineering programs at Stanford, he brings both production experience and a growing strategic perspective to AI productization.
10 years of coding experience