Hugo Fang

Software Engineer

San Francisco, California, United States11 yrs 1 mo experience
AI EnabledAI ML Practitioner

Key Highlights

  • Proven expertise in distributed systems and cloud infrastructure.
  • Led significant projects improving ad performance and system reliability.
  • Recognized for mentoring and driving team success.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a Backend-focused Software Engineer with strong expertise in Distributed Systems and Cloud Infrastructure.

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Skills

Core Skills

Distributed SystemsCloud InfrastructureAds RankingCloud Computing

Other Skills

Search Engine RankingMicroservicesGolangA/B TestingC++CBack-End Web DevelopmentpythonInfrastructureKubernetesGoogle Cloud Platform (GCP)JavaApache FlinkPrometheusBigTable

About

Senior Software Engineer with main focus on Distributed System & General Computer System (Database/Security/Network), Backend and Infrastructure Development. Minor specialization in Machine Learning System, Ads and Content Ranking and Retrieval. Proven track record of successful performance in cloud and social media industry Skills / Domain: - Infrastructure and Backend Development on Large-Scale Distributed System - Ads and Content Ranking / Retrieval System - Cloud Infrastructure and Microservices Development - Software Engineering Knowledge (Algorithms / Data Structure / Design Pattern / Refactoring / CI/CD / Unit-Testing) - Android (Linux) Camera Framework, HAL, ISP (Image Signal Processor) System, Linux Kernel Development- Machine Learning Systems

Experience

11 yrs 1 mo
Total Experience
1 yr 7 mos
Average Tenure
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Current Experience

Snap inc.

2 roles

Software Engineer

Jan 2026Apr 2026 · 3 mos · Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid

  • Content ML / Ranking Backend Team
Distributed SystemsSearch Engine RankingMicroservicesGolangA/B TestingC+++13

Software Engineer

Nov 2024Jan 2026 · 1 yr 2 mos · Palo Alto, CA · Hybrid

  • Content Ranking Infrastructure Team
  • I work on Mixer (Snap's ranking serving platform), Retrieval Service, Content Feature Stores' scalability, performance & cost (latency/throughput) optimization, and reliability:
  • Content ML feature sourcing streamline & optimization
  • Content ranking serving: Mixer re-architecture and performance optimization
  • Content retrieval / indexing
  • Computing efficiency optimization
Distributed SystemsBack-End Web DevelopmentAds RankingC++pythonTypeScript+4

Meta

Software Engineer

Oct 2023Sep 2024 · 11 mos · Menlo Park, CA · Hybrid

  • eCommerce Premium Product / Dynamic Ads Ranking Team
  • Led Temu Ads 7d GMV signal improvement projects and increased Ad performance (ROAS) by 50%
  • Designed and built Product-Level Boosting in Ranking Backend to resolve new product cold start issue and provided features for advertiser to boost high-value products
  • Built unique advertiser identifier for eCommerce Org. to unblock advertiser campaign level monitoring, auto-calibration improvement, and reduced advertiser SEVs and protected 14+M revenue loss (in 6 month run rate)
  • Drove team onboarding by giving tech talks in Custom Segment AB testing
Distributed SystemsInfrastructureBack-End Web DevelopmentDevOpsCloud ComputingGolang+5

Oracle

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jan 2023Oct 2023 · 9 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

  • OCI Cloud Queue / Workflow Service Team (Messaging Org.) -
  • Led new Realm/Region expansion which directly boost number of customer and revenue growth
  • Led Load Balancer Throttling & Shape Migration, Service Health Monitoring, and Capacity Reduction projects, cutting down operation cost by 75% and decreased large-scale event probability by 80%
  • Built distributed throttling, limits integration, and load test App to guarantee service availability and reliability
  • Designed and built public telemetry and statistics collection mechanism
  • Being Sr. reviewer of pull request, system design, and change ticket, and mentor of 4+ engineers
  • , owner of control plane and gateway,
  • Offered 5+ base practice/tech talks to drive team and org. training, built 10+ team Runbooks and DOCs
  • Won MSBP MVP award in 2023 Q1, a prize which recognizes significant individual contribution and volunteer helping to colleagues in OCI
  • Being escalation contact of critical distributed system issue (Team/Org. Level), Ex. Memory leak, backend cluster shutdown, sev1/sev2 customer tickets...etc
  • Referred 200+ software engineers and supported OCI Principle/Sr. software engineering roles recruiting

Software Engineer

Jun 2021Jan 2023 · 1 yr 7 mos · Austin, Texas, United States

  • OCI Cloud Queue / Announcement / Streaming Service Team (Messaging Org.) -
  • Designed and built Billing component to charge Oracle Queue Service APIs that supports 10M RPS
  • Designed and constructed Capacity Ingestion Automation to append large-scale Paxos backend cluster
  • Designed and implemented Leader Balancing Workflows to improve Paxos backend performance by 350%
  • Led capacity reduction project that saved 75% hardware cost for low and mid-traffic realm/regions
  • Built Canary, Alarm system, Secret Rotation Tool for Announcement service team
  • Mentored 2+ engineers, gave 3 tech talk, and holding team office hour to resolve team member technical questions
  • Contributed 2 best practice presentation to Messaging Org. on cloud Canary & Alarm System

Amazon

Software Development Engineer Intern

Jun 2020Aug 2020 · 2 mos · Seattle, Washington, United States

  • Amazon Fulfillment Technology DevOPs Team -
  • Designed and constructed Data-Puller and Data-Scanner backend Lambda services (Native AWS), monitoring whole Amazon cloud services’ health with auto-correction feature
  • Developed Unit Test, Integration Test, CI/CD pipelines to improve deployment efficiency by 300%, replacing manual cloud infrastructure build-up with typescripts in Amazon CloudFormation and CDK framework
  • Pushed 2 services to Production within 12 weeks and scaled services to serve 10K+ AWS users per day
  • Got full-time return offer after internship with highest permanence rating

Asus

2 roles

Senior Software Engineer

Jul 2016Sep 2017 · 1 yr 2 mos

  • Android Camera Software Team -
  • Led 5+ pilot camera projects, designed and built 50+% of Camera feature for Android Camera Org. and collaborated with 7+ internal teams and 5+ external teams
  • Designed and implemented 10+ flagship camera features (Ex. Face Detection, Video HDR) that account 80+% of smartphone revenue, and improved camera performance by 250% for 50+ million users across 20+ countries
  • Designed, built, and defined Automatic Testing Tools and CI/CD pipeline for ASUS Android Camera Org.
  • Developed Embedded Camera Softwares and Drivers based on Qualcomm/Intel Image Signal Processor and brought up camera-related hardware (Ex. Camera sensor and auto-focus engine) in Linux kernel
  • Designed and Built ASUSTek Camera Frameworks & HAL Architecture
  • Led and mentored 4 software engineers designing features, being Sr. reviewer of all camera code change
  • Project participate in,
  • 1. ASUS Zenephon 4 (Project Owner)
  • 2. ASUS Zenephon 3 (ZE552KL/ZE520KL, Project Owner)
  • 3. ASUS Zenephon 2 Laser (ZE500KL)
  • 4. ASUS Zenephon 2 (ZE500CL)

Software Engineer

Sep 2014Jun 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

  • Software Engineer in BSP(Board Support package) -
  • 1. Camera firmware (Framework/HAL/Kernel) porting
  • 2. Camera stress test tool(JAVA app) maintenance/development
  • 3. Camera performance tuning and stability issue
  • 4. CTS/CTS-Verifier tuning
  • 5. Camera Function Design: Face Detect, Beautification, HDR, Video-HDR, EXIF, Raw Capture, Stability, Postview, Auto-Focus
  • 6. Camera Sensor / VCM bringup
  • 7. Worked on main camera software architecture & features and led 5+ junior software engineers

Roc army (taiwan)

Chief Counselor

Oct 2013Sep 2014 · 11 mos · Pingtung County, Taiwan

  • Managed the daily activities of 100+ soldiers and 20+ officers; evaluated their mental and physical health
  • Lead company to complete military tasks efficiently and planned political courses and activities for team-building
  • Won excellent performance award to recognize significant individual contribution and volunteer help to the company and soldiers

Tsmc

Research Intern

Jul 2012Aug 2012 · 1 mo · Hsinchu County/City, Taiwan

  • Engineering & Manufacturing Information Technology Team -
  • Used MATLAB, C and R languages to increase accuracy and computing performance of pattern recognition algorithms
  • Analyzed defect patterns of circuit probing (CP) maps, designed new pattern recognition algorithms and applied image pre-processing like Rotation to improve accuracy rate by 200%
  • Used time-complexity analysis to improve computing performance of pattern recognition algorithms by 800%

National taiwan university

Research Assistant

Sep 2011Aug 2013 · 1 yr 11 mos · Taipei City, Taiwan

  • Statistical Machine Learning and Data Mining Lab -
  • Developed Machine Learning Systems aimed at helping doctors diagnose breast/thyroid cancer
  • Implemented IC images Pattern Recognition system for identifying problems in production line
  • Achieved accuracy rate of 90%+ and self-training function on classification models for both systems

Fareastone telecom

Full Stack Engineer

Jul 2010Jun 2011 · 11 mos

  • Android Marketing Ads Team -
  • Designed and created web-based wizard that enables 500+ users per day to create customized Android Apps
  • Developed website, web services and database using JSP, JavaScript, MySQL, HTML
  • Developed and designed several Android template & applications with Java

Education

University of Massachusetts Amherst

Master of Science - MS — Computer Science

Sep 2019May 2021

National Taiwan University

Master’s Degree — Industrial Engineering

Sep 2011Aug 2013

Yuan-Ze University

Bachelor’s Degree — Industrial Engineering

Sep 2007Jun 2011

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