Michael Hsueh
Software Engineer (L5) at Snap Inc.
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hsueh is a seasoned software engineer and engineering manager with 14 years of experience building and scaling large-scale backend systems across companies like Google, Amazon, Samsara, and Snap. He has led end-to-end architecture and modernization efforts for core user support features at Google and powered foundational YouTube Studio services used by millions of creators. Michael’s hands-on work spans distributed systems, configuration management, and observability—as evidenced by contributions to the gNMI project where he added config revisioning, metadata handling, and a watch package for change monitoring. Based in California with an MS and BS from UC Berkeley, he combines strong production delivery with technical leadership at L5. Notably, he has experience growing platforms from nascent catalogs to global scale and modernizing org-wide tech stacks, showing a comfort with both deep systems work and cross-team coordination.
14 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Computer Science, Master’s Degree Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
English
Github Skills (4)
grpc10
configuration-management10
protocol-buffers10
go10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
openconfig/gnmi
Oct 2018 - May 2020
gRPC Network Management Interface
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:29 commits, 1 PR, 42 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Michael primarily contributed to the `proto/target/target.proto` and associated Go files, adding features like password lookup, metadata, and configuration revisioning. They also enhanced the `target` package to handle configuration changes, including additions, updates, and deletions. Furthermore, they created a new `watch` package, suggesting work related to monitoring file changes. These contributions indicate a focus on core system logic and configuration management.
golanggrpcnetwork-managementnetworking
mkhsueh/mkhsueh.github.io
Jan 2015 - May 2019
Contributions:28 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 3 months
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