Hsiu-fan Wang
Senior Staff Software Engineer, Google Cloud Storage
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolHsiu-fan Wang is a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google Cloud Storage with 14 years of experience building and scaling cloud-native systems, previously leading Cloud SQL and YouTube TV engineering efforts. She blends hands-on backend expertise (Ruby, Node.js, Python, Java, MySQL, Redis) with cloud ops across GCP and AWS to deliver resilient, high-performance services and enterprise features like HA, backups, and private connectivity. As a technical leader she grew Cloud SQL’s team and architecture to support multi-database offerings and dramatically improved availability and reliability at scale. Her roots as a founder (Wejoinin) and director of backend engineering for mobile gaming give her a product-minded focus on delightful user experiences that endure under heavy load. An active open-source contributor, she’s improved Redis Ruby bindings and enhanced the widely used Cloud SQL Proxy’s authentication and connection behavior, showing a practical attention to security and developer ergonomics. Based in Cupertino with a Berkeley EECS background, she combines startup agility with large-scale platform design and operational rigor.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
BS, EECS, BS, EECS at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
gcp10
sorted-set10
user-authentication10
authentication10
cloud-infrastructure10
cloud-services10
go10
redis10
testing10
google-cloud9
google-cloud-platform9
unit-testing9
networking8
database-design7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
GoogleCloudPlatform/cloud-sql-proxy
Apr 2018 - Apr 2019
A utility for connecting securely to your Cloud SQL instances
Role in this project:
Back-end & Cloud Engineer
Back-end & Cloud EngineerContributions:3 releases, 16 commits, 35 PRs in 11 months
Contributions summary:Hsiu-fan primarily contributed to the back-end logic and configuration of the Cloud SQL Proxy. They reverted a change related to SSL certificate refresh, implemented changes to utilize `gcloud` for authentication, and adjusted the default IP address preference. The user also added features to support non-service-account credential files when the proxy is run as a binary and refined the authentication order. These changes impact how users authenticate and connect to Cloud SQL instances, and add additional security and flexibility.
instancescloud-sql-proxycloud-sqlgoogle-cloud-platformsql
nateware/redis-objects
May 2013 - Nov 2013
Map Redis types directly to Ruby objects
Role in this project:Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:8 commits in 5 months
Contributions summary:Hsiu-fan primarily focused on improving the functionality and testing of the `redis-objects` library. Their contributions included refactoring tests to remove reliance on hash value ordering and adding tests for unionstore and interstore operations in the sorted set implementation. They also enhanced the library with features like variadic zadd and improved the handling of custom Redis connections, demonstrating expertise in both backend development and quality assurance practices within a Redis-based environment.
redismapruby
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