Summary
Mengjiao Hong is a software and site reliability engineer with nine years of experience spanning SRE, robotics, self-driving systems, and backend engineering, currently based in Pittsburgh and working at Google. She combines deep low-level C++ and Python expertise from robotics and vehicle integration with production-grade SRE work—designing infrastructure, deployment tooling, and cluster automation for global data centers. Her background includes sensor and vehicle communication (CAN, UDS, TCP/IP), performance-focused robotics systems that cut cycle times, and backend services in Go with Postgres, giving her a rare blend of embedded-to-cloud experience. At Google she focuses on reducing cluster cycle times and operational costs through base-stack improvements and developer-facing tools, drawing on prior roles at Uber and robotics startups. Notably, she has hands-on experience moving research-grade robot perception and motion code into reliable production deployments.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Thermal Energy and Power Engineering, Bachelor's degree Thermal Energy and Power Engineering at Southeast University
Master's degree Mechanical Engineering - Robotics & Control, Master's degree Mechanical Engineering - Robotics & Control at Northwestern University
chinese · 中文, English, asl