Hayden S is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-performance developer tools and full-stack products across Google and FPGA EDA. He led a team to design and ship an IDE adopted by 100+ customers, architecting a VS Code–inspired frontend in Flutter and a Python backend with ZeroMQ for low-latency IPC, while owning CI/CD and GitLab infrastructure. At Google he delivered scalable Extensions features and migrated large codebases to Dart null-safety, impacting hundreds of thousands of advertisers. His background spans ML-driven robotics research at UC Berkeley and production systems work, giving him both research rigor and pragmatic engineering judgment. Based in Shanghai with a strong GPU/graphics bent on his personal GitHub, he prefers working relationships forged in person or through shared projects. Outside work he’s equally likely to be optimizing a pipeline or training a Pokémon, revealing a playful curiosity behind his engineering focus.
8 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, Master of Science - MS Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year
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