# Simeng Hao

> Software Engineer @ Hive | CMU ’24

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

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

### Freelance Software Engineer @ Unknown
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025 | Sunnyvale, CA
Designed, developed, and deployed Spring Boot-based microservice to take payment via WeChat Pay and Alipay for existing catering system. Documented all interfaces following Open API specifications.

Developed WeChat Mini Program-based frontend module to facilitate payment.

### Software Engineer @ Stealth Startup
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
• Co-designed and implemented frontend for AI video understanding system using Svelte and SvelteKit. Refactored over 5000 lines of existing code to adopt a functional style and reduce average component size by more than half.
• Audited and overhauled database to achieve 2NF database normalization, reducing data-related debugging time by 90% and enabling extension of video length limit by 10x.

### Undergraduate Teaching Assistant @ University of Virginia
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Charlottesville, VA
Co-produced grading scripts for Software Development Methods with 500+ students. Headed lab activities that supplement lectures. Mentored 4 cohorts of 3-4 people each. Held office hours 2 hours per week to answer student questions and to articulate key concepts.


## Education
### Master of Science in Software Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Virginia

### GCE A-Level in Science Track (Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, and Economics)
Temasek Junior College

### GCE O-Level
Nan Chiau High School


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

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Last updated: 2026-04-11