Tao Villanueva
AI Engineer at First American
San Diego, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTao Villanueva is an AI Engineer based in San Diego who designs and ships production-grade agentic AI and RAG systems, primarily in Python on Azure Databricks. With 14+ years of backend and architecture experience rooted in .NET/C#, he brings a strong emphasis on scalability, security, and operational rigor to LLM serving, evaluation, and model ops. He builds multi-step, stateful agents with LangGraph and Pydantic and optimizes retrieval pipelines for grounding and latency in real-world applications. Tao has led cross-functional global teams and accelerated delivery by embedding AI-first tooling like Copilot and Copilot Agents into engineering workflows. An active contributor to the .NET ecosystem, he improved WebJob publishing for Linux in the dotnet/sdk project, reflecting his blend of systems-level thinking and pragmatic engineering. He holds a Master’s in Computer Science from Aalto University and regularly shares practical learnings on his engineering blog.
7 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Information Technology, Bachelor's degree Information Technology at Metropolia University of Applied SciencesMaster's Degree in Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science, Master's Degree in Computer Science Theoretical Computer Science at Aalto University
Chinese, English, Finnish
Github Skills (9)
net10
asp-net10
dotnet10
linux10
csharp10
dotnet-core10
sdk9
publish9
cli8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
dotnet/sdk
May 2022 - Jun 2022
Core functionality needed to create .NET Core projects, that is shared between Visual Studio and CLI
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:13 reviews, 10 commits, 10 PRs in 29 days
Contributions summary:Tao primarily contributed to the enhancement of WebJob publish functionality, focusing on supporting Linux environments. They introduced features for generating command files compatible with Linux systems, ensuring proper execution of WebJobs. The contributions include modifications to existing code to accommodate Linux-specific pathing and command structures, along with adjustments to the testing suite to validate these changes. Additionally, the user integrated updates from the 'main' branch into their development branch.
clidotnetvisual-studiosdk
anvillan/PublishOnGit
Sep 2020 - May 2023
Contributions:124 pushes in 2 years 9 months
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