Alice Wong
Senior Software Developer at Google
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolAlice Wong is a Senior Software Developer with 12 years of experience specializing in big data infrastructure, distributed systems, and machine learning, currently based in Waterloo, Ontario. She has advanced through multiple roles at Google—ranging from research internships to senior developer—contributing to Display Ads infrastructure and conversational recommendation models. Her background blends academic research at the University of Waterloo (high honors BCS, 3.9 GPA) with production engineering across companies including Bloomberg, LinkedIn, and Square, where she built real-time and scalable systems. Alice has hands-on experience benchmarking graph databases, integrating Kafka for high-throughput workloads, and implementing embedding models to improve recommendation quality. Known for moving research into production, she pairs strong systems design with empirical evaluation and a knack for performance tuning. She is actively seeking a full-time role where she can apply her cross-disciplinary expertise to large-scale data and ML infrastructure challenges.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
98%, 98% at Sir John A. Macdonald S.S.Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science, 3.9, Bachelor of Computer Science (BCS), Computer Science, 3.9 at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
Github Skills (11)
digital-humanities9
big-data-analytics8
nlp7
question-answering7
workload5
journalism5
database4
embedding3
memgraph2
benchmark1
accumulo1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
aliceranzhou/aliceranzhou.github.io
Oct 2016 - Sep 2022
Contributions:63 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 11 months
aliceranzhou/productsearch
Jun 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:5 commits in 3 months
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