# Shannon Hong > Software Engineer at Apple Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/shannonhong ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Apple Jan 2023 – Present Vision Products Group - R&D ### Software Engineer @ Waybridge Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, New York, United States Tech stack: React, TypeScript, Python, GraphQL, PostgreSQL, Django, Node.js, Figma ### Software Developer @ Blueprint, Technology for Non-Profits Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Berkeley, California, United States • Built a web app for Oakland Genesis Soccer Club (OGSC), a nonprofit providing free competitive athletic programs and academic support to socially and economically disadvantaged youth • Designed and wrote PostgreSQL + Prisma backend to handle user permissions and sensitive academic data • Developed a user portal in React + Next.js to track student academic records, well-being, and athletic progress • Reduced workload for volunteers and engaged donors and athletic recruiters, enabling OGSC to triple its program size in 2021 ### BI Engineer Intern @ Amazon Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Seattle, Washington, United States • Built an end-to-end NLP pipeline to automate categorization of seller e-commerce data • Performed topic modeling of seller e-commerce data using statistical & deep learning techniques (LDA, tf-idf, word2vec) • Implemented convolutional and recurrent neural network models for text classification, enabling efficient categorization of 10,000+ unstructured articles of text and removing the need for human supervision ### Operations Specialist @ Square Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States ### Systems Analyst Intern @ Dolby Laboratories Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Used Pandas and hierarchical clustering algorithm to intelligently group and process all 400,000+ company license agreements, enabling accurate income reporting in a fraction of the time • Automated critical transactions for Dolby Vision/Atmos technologies by writing Python scripts and building Tkinter UI, saving team 500+ hours per year • Spearheaded data collection and analysis for Dolby’s new music streaming initiatives, creating visualizations of pricing models, sound quality, and audience reach of 20 major competitors • Implemented Google Analytics on royalty reporting portal (major product accounting for 90% of company revenue) and analyzed user behavioral data to improve reporting speed and autonomy ### Associate Consultant @ Microfinance at Berkeley Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Undertook a pro-bono consulting project with a small business to rebrand and expand their business by revamping their website, analyzing their financial statements, and assisting with the recruitment of new staff • Investigated and implemented effective website designs for high user engagement and increased sales * Quantified financial data and programmed visualizations to examine feasibility of client’s expansion efforts ### Senior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area • Developed course content, video walkthroughs, guides and worksheets for Berkeley’s major introductory CS/data science courses (4000+ students/year) • Taught multiple weekly sections and hosted personal office hours for students, covering concepts such as recursion, data structures, interpreters, runtime analysis, and OOP • Set up and led a task force of mentors to create a content guide on writing good test cases for code • Served as lead mentor for first-time Junior Mentors, organizing weekly meetings to relay important course announcements and provide feedback on their teaching methods from shadowing their classes ### CS 61A Associate Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area ### CS 61A Junior Mentor @ Computer Science Mentors Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area ### Events Specialist @ UC Berkeley School of Information Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Facilitated communication between several graduate departments on campus to put on events for hundreds of students at a time, a few being the DataEDGE Conference, M.I.D.S. Orientation, M.I.M.S. Orientation, etc. • Spearheaded an alumni database project utilizing information from LinkedIn to centralize into an accessible excel sheet for alumni outreach and funding opportunities • Investigated archives of photos and documents from South Hall through official University online resources as well as the Bancroft Library to be put in a presentation for the 100th Anniversary celebration for over hundreds of guests ### Accounts Payable/Accounts Receivable Assistant @ University of California, Berkeley Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Maintained accounting ledgers by posting account transactions on spreadsheets for university business • Obtained revenue by verifying transaction information, computing charges and refunds, and preparing invoices • Utilized Salesforce on a daily basis for client management and resolving account discrepancies by investigating documentation, issuing stop payments, payments, or adjustments ### Finance Committee Member @ Ascend Leadership Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area • Volunteered to prepare tax returns for low-income families and individuals in the Bay Area with Tax-Aid, working with Lacerte Tax Software • Gathered data and analyzed trends in the cryptocurrency industry to present in a training workshop for the entire chapter • Coordinated a networking roundtable between 40+ chapter members and 9 business industry professionals, moderating questions and answers to allow for quality discussion ## Education ### B.A. in Data Science University of California, Berkeley Jan 2017 – Jan 2021 ### High School Diploma Cerritos High School Jan 2013 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/shannon-hong-23b292180 --- Source: https://flows.cv/shannonhong JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/shannonhong/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22