Summary
Hongbo Du is a software engineer with eight years of experience building production systems in the San Francisco Bay Area, currently contributing to Airtable after a multi-year tenure as a Software Development Engineer at Amazon. He combines a solid academic foundation—a MS in Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon—with strengths in software engineering, data structures, and machine learning to tackle both backend scale and algorithmic challenges. Comfortable in fast-paced internet-industry environments, Hongbo has experience translating research-grade concepts into robust, deployable services. His background spans mechanical engineering to advanced ECE, signaling a pragmatic, cross-disciplinary approach to problem solving.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering, Bachelor's degree, Mechanical Engineering at Xiamen University
Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese