Hung Doan
Staff Software Engineer at Databricks
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHung Doan is a Staff Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building high-impact, scalable systems across startups and major tech companies, currently leading the Data Environments team at Databricks. He has driven dramatic performance improvements (10–100x) in compute-heavy infrastructure and led teams that operate millions of daily queries and dozens of data connectors. A proven mentor and people leader, Hung has guided engineering growth, instituted quality and performance practices, and shipped education-focused products at the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative. He combines deep backend expertise (Rails, GraphQL, distributed systems) with a track record of cross-functional delivery—designing privacy-compliant deletion pipelines and robust data ingestion for sensitive educational data. Based in Sunnyvale, he brings a thoughtful, user-first approach informed by his interest in education, productivity, and meditation.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor Computer Science, Bachelor Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (98)
sorbet10
ruby10
http-request10
rails10
checker10
rbs9
npm-package9
ruby-on-rails9
steep9
yard9
queue8
api8
passwords8
signature8
rspec-rails8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
chanzuckerberg/sorbet-rails
Apr 2019 - Oct 2021
A set of tools to make the Sorbet typechecker work with Ruby on Rails seamlessly.
Contributions:35 releases, 28 reviews, 306 commits in 2 years 6 months
ruby-on-railstypecheckerrailssorbetruby
oidong1/Bildigo
Sep 2012 - Aug 2013
Javascript Visualization Tool for Education
Contributions:29 commits in 11 months
javascriptvisualization
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