Benjamin Hong

Software Engineer

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia2 yrs experience

Highly Stable

Key Highlights

Passionate about full-stack web development and AI.
Developed innovative solutions for earthquake early warning.
Fast learner with diverse programming language proficiency.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fullstack Developer with a focus on IoT and Machine Learning.

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Skills

Core Skills

Research SkillsNetwork EngineeringSoftware Development

Other Skills

LinuxJavaScriptAcademic WritingVersion ControlZigBeeInternet of Things (IoT)C++Public SpeakingC (Programming Language)NetworkingWireless MeshCloudflareServerless ComputingGitPython (Programming Language)

About

I'm an postgraduate student at The University of Melbourne studying a Master of Computer Science. I'm a self-motivated learner that loves to explore new technologies, and I'm passionate about full-stack web development, network engineering, and AI. I'm currently a machine learning engineer at Kagi Search working on products such as Kagi Sidekick and Kagi Assistant. I'm also working with secondary schools in Wellington to develop gamified learning experiences for business and commerce subjects in my free time. I'm a fast learner and comfortable with a variety of programming languages, such as Python, Java, Typescript, Javascript, HTML, CSS, and C/C++. I'm also familiar with React.js, Serverless Computing, MongoDB, MySQL, and Cloud Computing. In the near future, I'm looking into exploring Machine Learning and AI. I'm always keen to work on innovative projects, and I'm looking forward to using my knowledge to build something impactful.

Experience

Google

Software Engineer

Nov 2025 – Present · 4 mos · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · On-site

iOS developer on Google Maps CarPlay

Dolby laboratories

Postgraduate Student

Jul 2025 – Present · 8 mos · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia

Researching novel architectures for speech enabled LLMs. Partnership with the University of Melbourne.

Kagi

2 roles

Machine Learning Engineer

Feb 2024 – Dec 2025 · 1 yr 10 mos · Remote

Research and Development Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Feb 2024 · 3 mos · Remote

Reveal

Intern R&D Software Engineer

Nov 2023 – Feb 2024 · 3 mos · Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · On-site

Victoria university of wellington

Research Assistant

Dec 2022 – Nov 2023 · 11 mos · Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand

LinuxJavaScriptResearch SkillsAcademic WritingVersion ControlNetwork Engineering+8

Massey university

Research Assistant

Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 · 1 yr · Wellington, Wellington Region, New Zealand · Hybrid

Worked on a novel, low-cost, decentralised Earthquake Early Warning System.
Developed a peer-to-peer networking solution for IoT devices, reducing P90 latency between nodes by 55% compared to the laboratory's commercial solution, which was presented and published at the ISCRAM Asia Pacific Conference 2022.
Implemented in Node.js and deployed to Linux seismometers with Docker. Contributed required features to fails-components/webtransport with C++.
Developed and launched a real-time ground motion monitoring solution (shakemap.crisislab.org.nz) using Python, TypeScript, React, Mapbox, S3, Cloudflare Workers, Azure, Auth0 and MongoDB.
Architected a fully decentralised smartphone-based mesh seismometer network for iOS and Android with cryptographically verifiable alert chains using public key infrastructure that is network partition tolerant.

CloudflareLinuxServerless ComputingJavaScriptGitPython (Programming Language)+18