# Oscar So > Staff Software Engineer at Facebook Location: New York, New York, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/oscarso Oscar is a driven, innovative, and passionate Software Engineer concentrating in Backend Services, Full Stack Development, and Data Science. He is willing to quickly learn more at every opportunity available and does not hesitate to take risks and adapt to change. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2026 – Present | New York, United States ### Senior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Jan 2026 | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Junior Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Menlo Park, California, United States Ads ML Infra ### Teaching Assistant, CS 2024 (C++ Programming) @ Cornell University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 ### Teaching Assistant, CS 4300 (Information Retrieval & Full Stack Development) @ Cornell University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Held weekly office hours and grade papers & homework assignments - Facilitated and mentor team projects within the class - Provided suggestions for student's information retrieval full stack development projects and successfully sent a group into the Hall of Fame ### Teaching Assistant, HADM 2230 (Financial Accounting) @ Cornell University Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 - Continued previous TA experience and work with a new team of TAs - Held weekly office hours and report students' misunderstood concepts to the professor - Helped students better understand the accounting process and develop skills necessary to evaluate an organization’s financial position and its operating, investing, and financing activities ### Data Scientist @ Cornell Data Science Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Cornell University MyCourseIndex - Created search platform for students with secure login to identify and classify user for the webpage with Azure AD - Developed search algorithm for relevant information using cosine similarity, Boolean search, SVD, and concept matching - Co-Led a team of 17 engineers across the entire project team to develop this major application - Organized the combination of front-end with React.JS and back-end with Python & Flask for ideal UX/UI - Generated Q&A System for user queries/questions - Wrote up Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policies for the Platform - Coded a professor sign up page for enrolling their courses into our system where information is safely stored and transferred into an AWS bucket - Pitched the project to professors at Cornell University to try to onboard them and their classes into our platform Pleio (Collaboration with Pleio Inc.) - Analyzed phone call recordings for sentiment analysis and customer response with text and tone analysis - Generated reports based off user replies and actions to create insights on Pleio’s phone call transcripts using causal modeling SnapBee (Collaboration with Munich RE) - Created webapp for Cornell that allows students and professors to post class notes to annotate and study by giving the users insights based off their logging history and study habits. - Utilized Azure Portal and Storage systems for data storage and manipulation - Secured the log in system through Cornell’s API to identify user and classify them into groups based off status in school (eg. Students) Knowledge Graphs Project https://github.com/CornellDataScience/Insights-Knowledge-Graphs - Utilized high-level NLP, with relation extraction and named entity recognition, to approach and summarize long documents of text input - Constructed extractive and query-specific knowledge graphs based off document being analyzed - Designed front-end visualization to depict knowledge graph during presentation. ### Software Engineer Intern @ Capital One Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | McLean, Virginia, United States Certification: Certified Secure Software Engineer – Associate • Reduced the Referrals Platform Run-The-Engine (RTE) costs through automating the error handling process for credit card referral bonuses • Incorporated S3, SNS, SQS, and a Postgres DB to parse and handle errors with a daily cron job on AWS lambda • Helped business team understand the project process by designing and coding a React console application for demo use ### Full Stack Developer @ MyLife Network Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Cyberport, Hong Kong • Developed and modified android application project consisting of 50,000+ lines using React-Native frontend, MySQL Database, and PHP API backend regarding insurance advice • Redesigned website framework and layout for better UI/UX to enhance customer retention and attraction • Prepared coding manual and documentation for usage in future app development ### Software Developer @ Organic Robotics Corporation Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Ithaca, New York, United States • Trained and prepared ML models to fit given dataset for predicting rate of fatigue in a user • Established an iOS app with AR features for user calibration and data collection • Collaborated with team members to ensure Light Lace™ Hardware and Software are in sync ### Teaching Assistant, HADM 2230 (Financial Accounting) @ Cornell University Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 - Explained concepts of business and financial accounting to students - Helped students better understand the accounting process and develop skills necessary to evaluate an organization’s financial position and its operating, investing, and financing activities ### Instructor @ iD Tech Camps Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Hong Kong • Developed lesson plans for weekly courses including Programming, Machine Learning, and Discrete Math • Programmed lesson demos in Java and Python for students to utilize • Coordinated with other instructors for group activities and group teaching • Taught Robotics, Cryptography, and Programming to high school students. • Debugged various levels of code and bugs through the programming errors of students. ### Summer Intern/Student @ Emali Limited Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Hong Kong • Reproduced programs, like RSA, for Data Cybersecurity with Java and JavaScript • Established knowledge on Discrete Mathematics and Cryptography • Worked in team environment for encryption projects ## Education ### Master of Engineering - MEng in Computer Science Cornell University Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science Cornell University Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 ### High School Diploma Hong Kong International School Jan 2014 – Jan 2018 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/oscarso2000 --- Source: https://flows.cv/oscarso JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/oscarso/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22