Alvin Sng
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Kevin Liang
I have known my friend and colleague Alvin for over half a decade now. Alvin is truly talented in his field of software engineering. I often seek him for tips and advice on many of my projects and he is knowledgeable in many areas of computer science, ranging from computer architecture to web programming. Rarely do I come across folks in the tech industry that are as passionate and engaged on the latest technology as Alvin. Alvin constantly learns the latest developments in software development and stays at the leading forefront of it all. I would highly recommend Alvin for any technology related job. He is smart, efficient and is a strong leader.
Kevin Liang
I have known my friend and colleague Alvin for over half a decade now. Alvin is truly talented in his field of software engineering. I often seek him for tips and advice on many of my projects and he is knowledgeable in many areas of computer science, ranging from computer architecture to web programming. Rarely do I come across folks in the tech industry that are as passionate and engaged on the latest technology as Alvin. Alvin constantly learns the latest developments in software development and stays at the leading forefront of it all. I would highly recommend Alvin for any technology related job. He is smart, efficient and is a strong leader.
Kevin Liang
I have known my friend and colleague Alvin for over half a decade now. Alvin is truly talented in his field of software engineering. I often seek him for tips and advice on many of my projects and he is knowledgeable in many areas of computer science, ranging from computer architecture to web programming. Rarely do I come across folks in the tech industry that are as passionate and engaged on the latest technology as Alvin. Alvin constantly learns the latest developments in software development and stays at the leading forefront of it all. I would highly recommend Alvin for any technology related job. He is smart, efficient and is a strong leader.
Kevin Liang
I have known my friend and colleague Alvin for over half a decade now. Alvin is truly talented in his field of software engineering. I often seek him for tips and advice on many of my projects and he is knowledgeable in many areas of computer science, ranging from computer architecture to web programming. Rarely do I come across folks in the tech industry that are as passionate and engaged on the latest technology as Alvin. Alvin constantly learns the latest developments in software development and stays at the leading forefront of it all. I would highly recommend Alvin for any technology related job. He is smart, efficient and is a strong leader.
Experience
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Slope
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United States
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Software Development
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1 - 100 Employee
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Staff Software Engineer
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Jun 2022 - Present
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Brex
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United States
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Financial Services
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700 & Above Employee
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Staff Software Engineer, Tech Lead
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Jul 2019 - Dec 2021
Staff Software Engineer & Tech Lead on the Accounting Integrations Team. Managed 3rd party integrations including our public API endpoints. Supported the growth of our team from four to ten engineers while providing mentorship to each one. Improved accounting export success rate from 70% to over 99% during my first few months by knocking away dozens of bug and addressing scaling problems in our systems. Started the technical debugging interview program and contributed many site-wide observability improvements to our infrastructure. Show less
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Opendoor
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United States
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Real Estate
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer
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Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Senior Software Engineer on infrastructure. Improved site performance, reliability and engineering best practices. Reduced site downtime by 12x, increased site speed by 3.8x and lowered server costs by 54% per request. Senior Software Engineer on infrastructure. Improved site performance, reliability and engineering best practices. Reduced site downtime by 12x, increased site speed by 3.8x and lowered server costs by 54% per request.
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Airbnb
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Senior Software Engineer, Tech Lead
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May 2016 - Feb 2018
Tech Lead on the Communications Infrastructure team at Airbnb. Managed the delivery of 15 million messages a day via Push, SMS and Email. Re-architected a new in-house service to handle multi-channel delivery of messages used by hundreds of developers.
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Senior Software Engineer
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Jul 2015 - May 2016
Senior Software Engineer on the Product Excellence team focused on reducing customer contacts & increasing self-service automation for customer issues.
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Software Engineer II
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Feb 2014 - Jul 2015
Software Engineer II (E4) on the Internal Tools team which was responsible for building products to better resolve customer issues. This includes tools for the customer service team, the help center CMS, and the Resolution Center to automate disputes.
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Facebook
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineer
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Sep 2012 - Feb 2014
Building the Facebook Platform APIs, which are used by millions of apps worldwide. Developing various tools and products for the developers’ site and coding in PHP, JavaScript, and CSS with the use of Facebook’s extensive web framework and internal libraries.
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Engineer Intern
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Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
Engineering internship at Facebook in the platform team. Helped build products for Facebook developers including the various APIs & developer website.
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ASUCD Creative Media
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United States
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Advertising Services
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1 - 100 Employee
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Senior Web Developer
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Sep 2009 - Jun 2012
Lead the development of several dynamic web apps for UC Davis. Guided new employees to the custom framework and libraries used at CreativeMedia. Coded in PHP and JavaScript with MySQL, HTML, CSS, Zend Framework, Oracle DB, CAS Auth, and other third party APIs. Lead the development of several dynamic web apps for UC Davis. Guided new employees to the custom framework and libraries used at CreativeMedia. Coded in PHP and JavaScript with MySQL, HTML, CSS, Zend Framework, Oracle DB, CAS Auth, and other third party APIs.
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Cisco
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United States
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Software Development
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700 & Above Employee
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Engineering Intern
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Jun 2011 - Sep 2011
Worked on Cisco’s corporate website and made various improvements to the UI and style of the site. Developed front-end components of the app and used Java, JSP, Oracle DB, HTML, CSS, and DoJo JS. Worked on Cisco’s corporate website and made various improvements to the UI and style of the site. Developed front-end components of the app and used Java, JSP, Oracle DB, HTML, CSS, and DoJo JS.
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Education
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University of California, Davis
Bachelor's of Science, Computer Science