Hailong Cao
Software Engineer at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Surrey, British Columbia, Canada
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Top SchoolHailong Cao is a seasoned software engineer with over a decade of experience building high-performance, cloud-native distributed systems and leading teams through complex projects. He has driven critical data-plane features at AWS S3 (including Rust-based components for S3 Express One Zone) and contributed to managed messaging and billing systems at AWS, demonstrating a strong focus on system design, performance optimization, and reliability at scale. His background spans low-level graphics and driver work at AMD to WebGL and semantic image tools in startups, giving him rare full-stack depth from hardware-adjacent performance tuning to modern frontend experiences. Based in Surrey, BC, Hailong combines hands-on engineering with leadership experience in API design, large-scale refactors, and production debugging, and he often prefers pragmatic, measurable improvements over theoretical architectures.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Information system and management, Information system and management at Shanghai Maritime UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Software Engineering, Master's degree, Computer Software Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
296reputation
88kreached
14answers
6questions
Github Skills (95)
messaging10
broker10
perl10
stomp10
jms10
java10
activemq10
amqp10
javascript9
openconnect9
php9
apache9
browser-extension9
csharp9
sketchup8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
hailengc/binaryheap
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:30 commits, 37 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
hailengc/BingTranslatorX
Jun 2019 - Mar 2022
A Chrome translator extension use Bing Dict
Contributions:22 commits, 3 PRs, 97 pushes in 2 years 9 months
chromedicttranslatorbingchrome-extension
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