# Hong Tai Wei

> Senior Software Engineer at DoorDash

Location: Seattle, Washington, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/hong

Product oriented software engineer with 6+ YOE, and some PM & teaching experience.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2023 – Present | Seattle, Washington, United States

### Software Engineer @ Backbone
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
- Backend lead for Backbone Android (Node & GraphQL), bringing it from 0 to 50K+ installs with 4.8+ stars rating.
- Designed and implemented (full-stack) game management, server-driven UI, and cloud gaming UX with 3 patents pending.
- Engineering lead for software localization.
- Engineering lead for the Diablo Immortal partnership, in charge of partner developer relations, data & content lifecycle, and cross-functional collaboration.
- Enabled cross-platform (Android, Xbox, Steam, …) and cross-devices (see Playstation units) backend support via user segmentation and a redesigned games catalog.
- Kickstarted the internship program. Established school relations, hiring, and visa processes, then assumed intern manager role.
- Automated factory validation process through remote development of a robot arm & controller firmware tool.

### Professor (Google in Residence) @ California State University, Fullerton
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Fullerton, California, United States
- Taught 4 sections of CPSC 120 (~70 students) using my own project-based curriculum, managing a team of 6 TAs.
- Kickstarted a modern, cloud-based learning environment using Replit, Discord, Gradescope, and Moss.
- Hosted campus outreach, tech talks, interview prep and resume workshops. Sponsored various hackathons.

### Software Engineer III @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Lead and launched Centralized Service Accounts to enforce least privilege in identity management. This includes design, implementation, testing infrastructure, customer engagement (eg. Cloud ML & Twitter), and fail-safe mechanisms (eg. lien protection & org policies).
- Designed Just-in-Time provisioning and claim-based authentication for Service Agents to improve reliability.
- Implemented a new microservice to handle critical CanActAs service account operations.
- Proficient with GCP, Borg (Kubernetes), Flume (Dataflow), Boq, Rapid, Sisyphus, Monarch, Automon, Sigma, Mendel, Sawmill, Plx, etc.

### Game Designer @ Google
Jan 2020 – Jan 2022 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Established procedures around design for contracted games and brought titles like Tiles of Egypt and Pin the UFO to Google’s HTML5 game platform.

### Software Engineer II @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Added sharding, parallelization, client error monitoring, and UI for various identity processes.
- Managed Latchkey (Infrastructure as Code) security policies for 50+ GCP services.
- Designed, lead, and launched Service Account Monitoring for access transparency and customer alerting on accounts and keys. This consists of a Streaming Flume (Dataflow) pipeline and its productionization, with emphasis on redundancy and continuous deployment.

### Software Engineer @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington
- Lead and launched Chat Commands and Streamer Goals with >100k MAU, benefiting the Fan Funding, Charity and Supporter teams.
- Pioneered Cloud Gaming at Facebook through an internal hackathon.
- Used React, React Native, Native Templates, GraphQL, Relay, Presto, Scuba, Jest across iOS, Android, mobile and desktop Facebook sites.

### Program Manager @ Microsoft
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redmond, WA, United States
- Created the PlayFab doc site on docs.microsoft.com and its Swagger APIs.
- Designed and published the PlayFab Python SDK.
- Analyzed user funnel leveraging Datadog and PowerBI to identify KPIs for the PlayFab developer tools team.

### Software Engineer @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redmond, WA
- Designed and developed a cross-platform multiplayer UWP ID@Xbox game in Unity as an official sample for Xbox Integrated Multiplayer (XIM).

### Associate Developer @ Electronic Arts (EA)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Montreal, Canada Area
- Implemented the buddy system and its spawn logic in Star Wars Battlefront II.
- Ported over the path following logic from the Battlefield series.
- Improved asset reference graphing and overall performance in Frostbite.

### Software Developer @ Big Viking Games
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Canada Area
- Developed core gameplay and UI for Galatron and GalatronVS: AABB collision, easing animations, AI behaviour script parsing, various enemies and abilities.
- Worked on the audio manager (Web Audio API), chat bots (Messenger & Kik), admin tools (Typescript, React) and database migrations (Java, Redis).

### Accountant Assistant @ Times Accounting and Tax Services
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
- Bookkeeping & data entry on Excel and Sage.
- Translation of official documents English - French - Mandarin.


## Education
### Computer Science
University of Waterloo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Exchange student in Computational Science and Engineering
ETH Zürich
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019

### Computer Science
National University of Singapore
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017

### Diploma of College Studies in Arts & Sciences
Marianopolis College
Jan 2013 – Jan 2015

### Diploma of Secondary Studies in Sciences
Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
Jan 2008 – Jan 2013


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/hong
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Last updated: 2026-03-22