James Hwang
Senior Software Engineer at Meta
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolJames Hwang is a Senior Software Engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience building large-scale, revenue-driving web and distributed systems. He has shipped customer-facing e-commerce and payments platforms at WeWork that generated six-figure revenue shortly after launch and scaled across hundreds of offices, and now applies that product-focused mindset to complex systems at Meta. His background spans backend-heavy roles—designing microservice architectures, Kafka-enabled video search, and ElasticSearch-powered query systems that handled billions of items—combined with early electrical engineering training and hands-on leadership of offshore teams. He also brings teaching and coaching experience from Dev Bootcamp, helping translate engineering concepts into empathetic, collaborative practices. Notably, he has bridged platform integrations with major partners like Facebook and YouTube to open new data and revenue channels.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoStudy Abroad Program, Study Abroad Program at John Cabot University
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (16)
heroku6
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javascript6
bcrypt6
django4
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angular3
django-rest-framework3
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jhwang90/bleacher-report
Mar 2015 - Apr 2015
Contributions:8 PRs, 63 pushes, 5 branches in 1 month
jhwang90/jhwang90.github.io
Jan 2015 - Mar 2015
Contributions:26 pushes in 1 month
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