# Alex S.

> Senior Software Engineer at Meta | ex-ex-Meta

Location: Cupertino, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexs

I am currently interested in opportunities which can grow my technical skill set while working with other passionate engineers.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2023 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Infinitus Systems, Inc.
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States
• Ensured the preservation of surface integrity by establishing a resilient, scalable, and sustainable infrastructure to identify, assess, and address content in accordance with Facebook's Community Standards.

• Led cross-functional initiatives encompassing diverse teams and organizations, leveraging data as the primary catalyst to foster consensus on pivotal endeavors, such as addressing deficiencies in protocol enforcement and enhancing infrastructure.

• Successfully executed numerous substantial projects by constructing persuasive arguments to secure leadership endorsement, outlining key milestones, delivering regular updates on progress and obstacles, devising comprehensive rollout strategies, and implementing robust monitoring systems.

• Demonstrated a strong commitment to personal growth by acquiring in-depth knowledge of all products within the infrastructure ecosystem, guaranteeing that product and engineering design decisions adhere to the highest standards of quality.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Menlo Park, California, United States

### Software Developer, Business Operations Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Menlo Park, California
• Focused on development, scale, and automation of Human Review Tool for ensuring content was clean across the Facebook and Instagram platform.
• Built complex enterprise systems, workflows, and high-quality tools enabling operations at scale geared towards supporting the largest influencers across Facebook and Instagram, including politicians and celebrities
• Built highly reliable and performant systems with appropriate monitoring and alerting
• Worked closely with product managers, product designers, and partner engineers to lead or contribute to large-scale strategic projects
• Used software engineering skill sets in a business organization to drive meaningful business impact by looking at problems through an operational lens

### Software Development Engineer II @ Workday
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Worked on SYMAN Search which supported and developed search for Workday

•	Built a streaming pipeline utilizing Akka Streams within a micro-service architecture to push data from an in-memory database to Elasticsearch

•	Scaled out a previous indexing system from a two thread pull system to a distributed publish subscription model

•	Ensured production quality code through testing, monitoring, metrics collection and responding to alerts set up around the health of the system

### Software Developer in Professional Service Department at Apttus @ Apttus
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | San Mateo
• Developed Apttus cloud based solutions on the Salesforce platform to meet the business 
 requirements of enterprise level clients
 
• Constantly worked with MVC architecture (visualforce [HTML], Apex [Java]) and database
 interaction while observing best practices for performance and maintainability

• Implemented complex data models and utilized efficient algorithms with scalable capability
 
• Collaborated with a team in an AGILE-like environment to produce high quality solutions within
 set deadlines

### Computer Science Related (Bioinformatics minor) student @ UCLA Computer Science -- Bioinformatics
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
Worked on many CS focused courses to better understand the theory behind computational programs.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Data Science Engineering (Computer Science)
UCLA
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### BS in Bioengineering and Biomedical Engineering with Bioinformatics minor
UCLA
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alex-shung

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Last updated: 2026-03-22