Richard Hu

Senior Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States8 yrs experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Led full-stack engineering teams at Wish.
  • Pioneered e-commerce partnerships through innovative solutions.
  • Developed top shopping app on the Play Store.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Mobile Application Development expert in E-commerce.

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Skills

Core Skills

Mobile Application DevelopmentSoftware Development

Other Skills

Partner APIsJavaAndroid JetpackMobile ApplicationsPython (Programming Language)AndroidCMySQLKotlinGitJSONTeachingMentoringA/B TestingMicrosoft Office

Experience

8 yrs
Total Experience
3 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
1 yr 7 mos
Current Experience

Airbnb

Senior Software Engineer

Oct 2024Present · 1 yr 7 mos · San Francisco, California, United States · Remote

  • Partner APIs
Partner APIsMobile Application DevelopmentSoftware Development

Wish - shopping made fun!

4 roles

Staff Software Engineer

Aug 2022Jul 2024 · 1 yr 11 mos

  • Identified key issues with the existing user action data schema, used to store all user product interactions.
  • Scoped and prioritized a new and improved system, taking ownership of a previously un-owned area and gathering and integrating feedback from key stakeholders.
  • Seamlessly integrated the updated schema without disrupting existing pipelines, resulting in the attribution of over 10% of overall user action data that was previously unattributed.
  • Added company-level processes for maintenance and awareness, resulting in a standardized solution for all future user action data analysis.
  • Refactored the product details page from scratch.
  • Re-designed the entire framework across Android and backend with flexibility and consistency in mind, shifting from years of accumulated hardcoded client logic to a server-driven module based approach.
  • Greatly increased iteration speed by reducing dependency on client deployments.
  • Added several layers of monitoring to ensure key metrics were not disrupted during transition.
  • Designed for and supported iOS platform integration, eliminating most sources of client inconsistency by creating a single source of truth.
Mobile Application DevelopmentJavaSoftware Development

Senior Software Engineer

Mar 2020Aug 2022 · 2 yrs 5 mos

  • Leading an incredible team of full-stack engineers. Pioneering partnerships between e-commerce and physical retail through the Wish Local program, utilizing scalable systems built from scratch. Providing innovative logistics solutions without compromising on quality or accessibility across Android, iOS, and web, and building a flexible backend to boot.
Mobile Application DevelopmentAndroid JetpackSoftware Development

Software Engineer

May 2018Mar 2020 · 1 yr 10 mos

  • Building the #1 shopping app on the Play Store. Taking ownership of high impact ideas and successfully executing and iterating on them. Working on the full technology stack, including structuring scalable APIs, designing maintainable database systems, satisfying diverse A/B testing needs, and delivering a delightful client interface, all at massive scale.
Mobile Application DevelopmentAndroid JetpackSoftware Development

Software Engineering Intern

May 2017Aug 2017 · 3 mos · San Francisco Bay Area

  • Delivering high impact projects, such as a the Daily Giveaway feature, curating user-generated wishlist recommendations, and more.
Mobile Application DevelopmentMobile Applications

Google

Software Engineering Intern

Jun 2016Aug 2016 · 2 mos · Mountain View

  • Creation and improvement of the Android out-of-the-box/onboarding experience to adapt to changes in Android Nougat and beyond, with an emphasis on maintaining the accessibility and ease of the Android setup process.
Mobile Application DevelopmentMobile Applications

Education

University of California, Berkeley

Bachelor's Degree — Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

Jan 2014Jan 2018

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