Joseph Hwang
Software Engineer at MotherDuck
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoseph Hwang is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in large-scale distributed systems, currently building data infrastructure at MotherDuck in California. As a founding engineer and tech lead at Meta, he designed and standardized a multi-tenant resource isolation and management framework used across storage, databases, and streaming systems. His background includes deep work on scale-out storage (Manifold), high-performance proxies for encrypted cross-region transfers, and distributed database research at Rice University. He combines hands-on systems programming with cross-team integration and migration leadership, having led multi-year migrations and key QoS/reliability improvements. Comfortable operating at both implementation and architecture levels, he brings a track record of turning complex distributed requirements into reusable platform primitives. A 4.0 Rice CS graduate, he also has atypical hands-on field leadership experience from engineering projects and international teaching roles.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 4.0 at Rice UniversityHigh School, High School at Valencia High School
Github Skills (31)
oltp10
postgresql10
mysql10
analytics10
olap10
duckdb10
persistent10
sql10
database-management10
embedded-database10
database10
facebook9
storage9
embeddable9
storage-engine8
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Vegetable26/duckdb
Oct 2023 - Jan 2025
DuckDB is an in-process SQL OLAP Database Management System
Contributions:12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
Vegetable26/A1
Aug 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:61 pushes, 3 branches in 2 months
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