# Eric Hong

> Building Cursor

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/erichong

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Cursor
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Senior Software Engineer @ Stripe
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Founding Engineer @ Octane (We've joined Stripe!)
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Yext
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineering Intern @ Blend
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco
Worked on the Connectivity team, helping maintain and expand a microservice that connects to third party APIs to import financial information about mortgage loan applicants.
Worked primarily in Go and Javascript
Gained experience using PostgreSQL and writing database migrations that minimize downtime

### Software Engineering Intern @ CARNEGIE SPEECH, LLC
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Developed software to automatically grade essays in Python, using various NLP tools
Created a web API in PHP for customers to access the autograder
Parallelized and optimized the product to satisfy customers’ speed requirements


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### Non-Degree
University of Connecticut


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/eric-jw-hong

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Source: https://flows.cv/erichong
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/erichong/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-11