Feng Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Google
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolFeng Hu is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with nine years of experience building reliable back-end systems at major tech companies including Google, Amazon, and Airbnb. He specializes in distributed systems, service discovery, and configuration management, contributing to well-known open-source projects like Airbnb’s synapse and nerve where he improved atomic config updates, Zookeeper integrations, and robustness under network failures. Comfortable bridging engineering and DevOps concerns, he focuses on reliability, observability, and maintainability in production services. A Tsinghua CS graduate, Feng pairs deep technical troubleshooting with pragmatic engineering—often surfacing subtle operational improvements such as enhanced logging and atomic file operations that reduce downtime risk.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science at Tsinghua University
Github Skills (13)
rspec10
configuration-management10
zookeeper10
back-end-development10
ruby10
sys9
reliability9
distributed-systems9
reliability-engineering9
go9
error-handling9
systemd9
testing8
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
airbnb/nerve
Sep 2017 - Apr 2018
A service registration daemon that performs health checks; companion to airbnb/synapse
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:8 commits, 7 PRs, 3 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Feng primarily focused on improving the stability and robustness of the service registration daemon. Their contributions included refactoring of the Zookeeper reporter logic by implementing optimization and error handling to address potential network disconnections. Moreover, they updated versions and tests, ensuring the project's maintainability and reliability. The user also added comments to provide improved clarity and understanding of the codebase.
airbnbdaemonhealthregistrationservice-registration
airbnb/synapse
Aug 2017 - Mar 2018
A transparent service discovery framework for connecting an SOA
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 commits, 13 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Feng primarily focused on enhancing the `synapse` service discovery framework. Their contributions included enabling generator config updates from Zookeeper, fixing bugs in backend stanza generation, and implementing atomic config file updates. Additionally, they improved testing and added logging for config changes to improve monitoring and debugging. This indicates a focus on improving the reliability and functionality of the configuration management aspects within Synapse.
soatransparentservice-discoverydiscovery
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