Personal Portfolio: https://annatao.dev/
I'm a software engineer interested in backend systems, ML infrastructure, distributed systems, and open-source tooling.
Currently at Microsoft, I'm working on online services and authentication infrastructure, including Microsoft Entra ID, token validation, authorization, gateways, and reverse-proxy-based service architecture.
Previously at Improving, I built open-source integrations around Valkey and vector search, contributing to projects including Netflix Conductor, Unstructured, and ChatDev. My work included HNSW/KNN retrieval, vector database connectors, multi-agent memory systems, and reliability-focused ingestion workflows.
Before that, at Inverted AI, I worked on autonomous-driving simulation infrastructure — optimizing DRIVE API usage, building large-scale simulation systems in C++, using spatial partitioning for agent management, and exporting ML models to ONNX for deployment on embedded hardware.
- Distributed systems, backend infrastructure & scalable services
- Vector databases, semantic search & retrieval systems
- ML infrastructure, inference systems & model deployment
- Multi-agent systems, agent memory & LLM tooling
- Applied machine learning for simulation and intelligent systems
- Systems optimization, low-latency services & performance engineering
- Open-source infrastructure, developer tooling & platform engineering
- C++ systems programming and production backend development
- Cloud infrastructure, authentication & authorization systems
- Computer vision, multimodal models & embodied AI
📫 How to reach me: [email protected]


