# Simon Fong

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/simonfong

Software Engineer with experience in Full-Stack development, infrastructure, and tools.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer | Search Infrastructure @ Google
Jan 2022 – Present | New York, New York, United States
C++, Python

- Improving search systems and data location

### Software Engineer || | Storage Team | Data Access @ Roblox
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022

### Software Engineer | Storage Team | Data Access @ Roblox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022
Rust, Python, Bash, C#, Docker, Spark, Github Actions (CI), AWS(EMR, S3, DynamoDB, SQS)
- Created a course to rapidly onboard new customers onto our service, 1500+ views.
- Containerized our service to enable customers to test locally and in an isolated environment, used by 82+ services.
- Implemented safe self-service schema updates, decreasing change process from days to minutes. Used 5+ times.
- Migrating 80B+ records from Dynamo to our in-house service. When complete, it will be our team's biggest database.

- Developed a feature that allows safe self-service schema updates, decreasing change times from days to minutes
- Migrating a 20TB DynamoDB table to CockroachDB under our abstraction layer

### Software Engineer Intern | Cloud Infrastructure @ Flexport
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Ruby, Terraform, Bash, AWS: EC2, RDS, S3, Lambda
- Enabled parallelism for the Terraform build pipeline by storing build artifacts on S3 for much faster builds.
- Developed Lambdas to restore production databases to the demo environment for 26+ third-party companies.
- Upgraded our infrastructure and packages to use a secure version of the AWS metadata service to improve security.

### Software Engineer Intern | Google Cloud Platform @ Google
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Technologies Used:  Python, Django, MySQL, PolymerJS 1/2, HTML/CSS/Javascript
- Improved the Disaster Recovery Testing (DiRT) dashboard which coordinates tests run across Google.
- Refactored frontend components from PolymerJS 1 to PolymerJS 2 to support longer life.
- Designed and built SQL table schemas, PolymerJS components, and Django APIs to support test auto-scheduling.

### Software Engineer Intern | E-Commerce Team @ Clover Network, Inc.
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Python, Flask, HTML/CSS/Javascript, ReactJS, Typescript, Java, MySQL, Maven
- Built a full-stack application as a proof-of-concept to test newly built E-Commerce API's.
- Developed a Python SDK to ease the adoption of the E-Commerce platform for an estimated 1400+ developers.
- Created a component to add Google Pay support, doubling the market of possible users for an upcoming feature.

### ECE Tutor @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, California, United States
- Helped students with a facial recognition project that consists of using OpenCV, a Raspberry Pi,  Keras, and AWS to collect and process face images, retrain VGG16 to learn faces, and deploy a model with a RESTful interface.
- Developed and documented the web interface with the model.
- Trained students on using Laser Cutters, 3D Printers, and Soldering Irons.

### ECE Research Intern @ University of California, San Diego - Jacobs School of Engineering
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | La Jolla, California, United States
- Developed two online courses on building Internet of Things applications from collecting data via sensors to processing it on AWS.
- Lifetime enrollment of over 48,000 students.
- Mentored by Associate Researcher, Harinath Garudadri.

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Robotics
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States
- Prototyped a build system to cache computations for large data applications using parallelized computation.
- Collaborated with research scientists to integrate their workflows into our system.
- Created a majority of unit and integration tests.

### Projects Assistant @ UC San Diego Health
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | La Jolla, California, San Diego
- Indexed 1000+ documents into OnBase to aid in future searching of grant documents. 
- Sent weekly reports. 
- Mentored by Web Development team to learn more about how their web application functions. 
- Finished the Code Academy course on Python.

### Dining Hall Worker @ UC San Diego - Housing • Dining • Hospitality
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | La Jolla, California, San Diego
- Worked in teams to prepare food, clean workstations, and wash dishes for 100+ daily customers.


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Electrical Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Electrical Engineering
UC San Diego
Jan 2015 – Jan 2019

### Summer Enrollment
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016

### High School Diploma
Benicia High School
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015

### Concurrent Enrollment
Diablo Valley College
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/simonfong6
- Website: https://simonfong.me
- GitHub: https://github.com/simonfong6

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Last updated: 2026-03-22