Summary
Hong Wei is a product-oriented senior software engineer based in Seattle with a decade of engineering experience and 6+ years focused on shipping product features. He has driven back-end and full-stack systems at scale—from leading Backbone’s Android backend and cross-platform game catalog to building identity and service-account infrastructure at Google and DoorDash. Comfortable across cloud, mobile, and game ecosystems, he blends system design, developer relations, and localization to deliver high-rated consumer experiences and has three patents pending for server-driven and cloud gaming UX. He also has hands-on teaching and program-building experience, having taught large undergraduate courses and stood up an internship pipeline. Outside work he writes songs and designs tabletop games, a creative habit that informs his product thinking and user-focused design.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma of College Studies in Arts & Sciences, Diploma of College Studies in Arts & Sciences at Marianopolis College
Computer Science, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Diploma of Secondary Studies in Sciences, Diploma of Secondary Studies in Sciences at Collège Jean-de-Brébeuf
Exchange student Computational Science and Engineering, Exchange student Computational Science and Engineering at ETH Zürich
Computer Science, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, French, Chinese