5+ years of experience in web-based software development

2021 — 2025GoogleSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2025

Sunnyvale, California, United States

2018 — 2019TongliHRSenior Software Engineer

2018 — 2019

Sunnyvale, California, United States

Built an API service with Django for payroll and hr system. The api handled 100k+ employee payrolls and employment contract signings per month.

Created bulk processing logic with Pandas to reduce number of database queries. This relieved database deadlock issues and increased system throughput.

Dockerized applications to standardize deployment processes and to support horizontal scalability.

Deployed ELK (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) on AWS and configured multiple backend services to feed logs to Logstash. Achieved centralized logging, simplified debugging, and increased QA productivity.

Implemented task queue with Celery and Redis to enable asynchronous jobs which improved user experience. This also integrated standalone cronjob scripts into the service as periodic tasks.

2016 — 2017Outward, Inc.Software Engineer

2016 — 2017

San Francisco Bay Area

* Project team leader of a web CMS developed in Python, django, and MySQL which handled 15k requests per hour and managed more than 2 million records. Prioritized development and requirements

* Optimized program logic and enhanced throughput by more than 20x to relieve critical product bottleneck

* Revised inefficient database schema and optimized SQL queries which reduced response time by 10x

* Integrated message queue using Rabbitmq and Celery for asynchronous tasks to attain scalability

* Through code review, helped colleagues to tackle bugs and improve code quality and performance

2014 — 2015Next Mobile LimitedMobile Software Engineer

2014 — 2015

Hong Kong

* Developed iOS apps in Objective-C for Hong Kong’s top news apps: NextPlus, Sudden+, ME!, Ketchuper

* Refactored large codebases and added new features. e.g. deep linking and push notification

* Operated as Scrum Master; worked with UX designer for better interaction flows

2014 — 2014Fujitsu Hong Kong LimitedAnalyst Programmer

2014 — 2014

Hong Kong

* Provided POC on iOS/Android and project estimation for potential mobile app projects

* Developed Bluetooth data transfer functionality in HK 2016 Population Census Android app

Education

National Taiwan University

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Arts (BA)