# David Chou

> Software Engineer at Facebook

Location: Berkeley, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/davidchou

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2021 – Present

### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2016 – Jan 2021
Technical lead of team of four that is responsible for global user traffic management projects within disaster recovery team. These projects include automated services for user traffic balancing and failover, traffic shifting tools for site mitigations, and production traffic loadtesting to verify site capacity. Helped drive technical direction, design solutions, and develop our CI/CD strategy. Held weekly 1:1’s with team members for syncing, removing roadblocks, and mentoring.

Technologies: Python, Thrift, JavaScript, React, Hack (FB PHP)
Award: Highest Quality Code Reviewer in Infra Core Systems Org

### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2013 – Jan 2016
Canopy: Distributed End-to-end Performance Tracing
Developed the internal tools used by engineers for visualizing trace data and configuring sampling policies to collect traces. Designed the API’s used for performance instrumentation. Maintained the backend service for aggregating distributed trace data.

Technologies: JavaScript, React, CSS, Hack (FB PHP), C++

### CS162 TA @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | United States
TA for the Operating Systems and Systems Programming class at UC Berkeley, where I lead discussion, assist with projects, and critique designs of students' work.

### Undergraduate Researcher for Tessellation OS @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2012 – Jan 2013 | UC Berkeley
Ported a couple benchmark applications and currently working on kernel development such as building the threading library.

### Undergraduate Researcher for Fuzzing Research @ UC Berkeley
Jan 2011 – Jan 2012
Conducting research with David Wagner to discover a way to objectively compare the security of programs with the results of fuzz testing.

### Software Developer Intern @ PiCloud
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012
Created a system for aggregating usage to the PiCloud key value system and completed a web interface to the same key value storage system for users.  Also added a realtime monitor of resource usage on a per job basis and display this data to users through the website.

### Software Development Intern @ PiCloud
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011
Created Dinja, a system for detecting unauthorized root escalation.  Also helped design a web console for managing runtime environments.  Wrote a big data upload system that is capable of uploading files that are hundreds of gigabytes to terabytes in size.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/david-chou-479b5436

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Last updated: 2026-03-22