Summary
Hong Du is an SDE II at Amazon with eight years of software engineering experience, blending production-grade routing and planning systems work with academic research in computational journalism and VR. A first-generation college graduate from Columbia (CS, 3.8), Hong has moved between newsroom engineering, nonprofit web development, and large-scale backend systems—demonstrating an uncommon ability to translate civic and journalistic needs into reliable software. At Columbia they contributed to NSF-funded outreach and led UI design teaching while earlier internships included newsroom tooling for The Washington Post and DoD-sponsored X-Force fellowship work. Hong’s career reflects a consistent interest in technology for social good, pairing rigorous engineering at scale with a curiosity for human-centered storytelling and public-facing platforms.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.8 at Columbia University in the City of New York
The Bronx High School of Science
English, fuzhounese, Chinese