# Hongwei Wang

> Software Engineer at Snap Inc.

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

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area
Tech lead in Content Ranking team. Founding member of Snapchat short-form video recommendation product (a.k.a Spotlight). Working on large-scale ML ranking systems and algorithm optimizations, including multi-stage ranking, retrieval, feature engineering, training data pipelines, model training and inference.

### Software Engineer @ Instagram
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Menlo Park
Instagram Ads Delivery and Ranking team. Worked on multi-stage Ads delivery and ranking, feed / story ads insertion and ad load control to achieve revenue goal.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Mountain View
Enable F1 SQL query and data export on Google Spreadsheet.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View
Integrate gRPC with etcd and zookeeper for service discovery.

### Research Intern @ IBM
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Build a distributed content based pub / sub system.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Bachelor's degree in Software Engineering
Shanghai Jiao Tong University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/hongwei-wang-a546364a

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Last updated: 2026-04-12