Phoenix Huang
Software Engineer at Google
Menlo Park, California, United States
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Top SchoolPhoenix Huang is a software engineer with eight years of experience building scalable systems and pushing performance optimizations at companies including Google and Huawei. Based in Menlo Park, he has worked across back-end systems, distributed data processing (Spark/HBase), SDN prototypes, and mobile/embedded projects, demonstrating a rare blend of systems and low-level engineering. At Huawei he contributed map-only aggregations and HBase coprocessor pushdowns to improve query performance; at Google he continues to ship production-grade software and QA/test automation for cloud samples. An active open-source contributor, he has maintained and updated the widely used Cardboard SDK’s rendering layers (Metal and Vulkan) across many releases, showing attention to cross-platform graphics plumbing. Colleagues describe him as someone who continually seeks to overcome challenges and translates that drive into practical, reliability-focused code. His background spans electrical engineering to cloud-scale software, giving him both hardware-aware insight and cloud-native experience.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.2, Master of Science (M.S.), Electrical Engineering, 3.2 at University of MichiganFuxing senior high schoolBachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.4, Bachelor's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, 3.4 at Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (14)
sample-rate10
testing10
metal10
rspec10
sample-size10
vulkan10
c-language10
cprogramming-language10
google-cloud10
sample-data10
ruby10
android9
ios9
opengl8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
googlevr/cardboard
Apr 2021 - Oct 2022
Open source Cardboard SDK and samples
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:20 releases, 2 reviews, 13 commits in 1 year 6 months
Contributions summary:Phoenix primarily focused on updating the Cardboard SDK, specifically version 1.5.0, 1.6.0, 1.8.0, 1.9.0, 1.10.0, 1.11.0, 1.12.0, 1.13.0, 1.14.0, 1.15.0, 1.16.0, 1.17.0, and 1.18.0. These updates involved changes across multiple files, including adjustments to the Metal and Vulkan rendering implementations and device parameter handling. The user's contributions included modifications to header files, Vulkan distortion renderer, and Metal renderer.
openxrcardboardsdkvirtual-reality
GoogleCloudPlatform/ruby-docs-samples
Jul 2018 - Jul 2018
Ruby samples for Google Cloud Platform products.
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 commits, 3 PRs, 7 comments in 10 days
Contributions summary:Phoenix contributed to the project by adding tests for the Cloud Job Discovery Quickstart sample. These tests include integration tests designed to confirm expected outputs when calling Google Cloud APIs. The user also made updates to existing files, including the test configuration and the quickstart file itself, to address small issues. These commits collectively focus on improving the reliability and test coverage of the project.
railsgooglegoogle-cloud-platformrubycloud-platform
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