# Thien Hoang

> Senior Software Engineer at Google

Location: San Jose, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/thien

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2018 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States
Work on query processing and query optimization for Google's data logging (telemetry) system.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked on the u-root project with the goal to open source firmware for data center machines.
• Developed an on-memory Operating System called NiChrome with Linux Kernel and u-root firmware to demo at many hardware conferences.
• The build time of the Operating System is less than 5 minutes and boot time is almost instant with no state saved on the machine.     
• Github: https://github.com/u-root/u-root

### CS 8/16/24 Tutor @ University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Santa Barbara, California Area
• Taught students about C++, OOP, TDD, git, code organization, and debugging techniques and tools (gdb and valgrind). 
• Practiced technical communication and pair programming on the daily for students of all levels of understanding.

### Natural Language Processing Research Assistant @ University of California, Santa Barbara
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Santa Barbara, California Area
• Researched for Professor William Wang's NLP lab
• Paper: https://arxiv.org/abs/1707.06690

### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area
• Re-imagined the Outlook Email UI to be more reactive and modern with Typescript and ReactJS on a Flux architecture front end stack and ExpressJS and NodeJS server stack.
• Improved developers’ efficiency by capturing UI feedback and auto-creating or auto-linking it to a tracking bug.
• Press mention: https://www.theverge.com/2018/9/4/17819636/microsoft-resdesigned-outlook-windows-web

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bitwage, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
• Bitwage enables more flexibility for workers to receive their wages by using Bitcoin to cut middleman fees.
• Designed and implemented the API for money remittance from the U.S. to Vietnam and Mexico.


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science (COE)
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2014 – Jan 2018

### High School
Milpitas High School
Jan 2010 – Jan 2014


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/thienhoang23

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Last updated: 2026-03-22