Summary
David Quong is a Production Engineer with 11 years of experience building and operating large-scale infrastructure, currently focusing on Facebook’s traffic network from his Seattle base. He has deep hands-on expertise in production services, particularly DNS pipeline reliability and performance—having redesigned authoritative DNS map lookups to cut runtime complexity and improve speeds by up to 60%. His background spans production engineering, data pipelines, and automation from internships at Activision, SAP, and Wurldtech, where he shipped tooling for ETL, testing, and monitoring. Comfortable across systems, middleware, and observability, he pairs practical performance optimizations with robust deployment and staging practices to reduce risk in critical services. Notably, he translates low-level improvements into measurable operational gains, blending software development craft with production-grade reliability.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Eric Hamber Secondary
Bachelor’s Degree, Software Systems, 3.27 CGPA, Bachelor’s Degree, Software Systems, 3.27 CGPA at Simon Fraser University
English