Hongkun Ge
Engineering Manager at Meta
Chapel Hill, North Carolina, United States
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Top SchoolHongkun Ge is an engineering manager at Meta with 11 years of experience building large-scale backend and cloud-native systems, currently focusing on GenAI. He progressed from software engineer roles at TripAdvisor and WhatsApp to staff engineer and now manager at Meta, contributing to WhatsApp Cloud API and business platform efforts. His background spans microservices, Kubernetes, Hadoop, and database systems, complemented by research experience in medical image registration and satellite network simulation. Based in Chapel Hill with an MS in Computer Science from UNC, he blends academic rigor with production engineering and occasionally facilitates referrals for Facebook opportunities. Notably, he has a history of automating grading and classroom tooling during his TA role, reflecting a knack for practical automation beyond core product work.
11 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's Degree Electronic Engineering, Bachelor's Degree Electronic Engineering at Shanghai Jiao Tong UniversityMaster's degree Computer Science, Master's degree Computer Science at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (11)
java8
sql7
big-data6
hive6
spark6
sql-query6
database6
hadoop5
presto5
trino3
query-engine3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
HongkunGe/Image-Registration-by-Learning-Common-Feature
Aug 2015 - May 2016
Contributions:6 commits, 6 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
HongkunGe/TankWar
May 2016 - Jul 2018
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 3 months
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