Summary
Rong Ling is a senior software engineer with nine years building large-scale data platforms across Microsoft, Lyft, and currently Uber, where she focuses on Spark-based data platform work and data security/privacy. She has deep experience in web-scale data ingestion and processing from her time on Bing’s web data platform and in query engines and driver-pay analytics at Lyft using Presto. Rong pairs strong academic training—a M.S. in Computer Science from University of Michigan—with hands-on production experience designing systems that deliver high-volume, high-quality data for search and analytics. She’s comfortable navigating both backend infrastructure and privacy-sensitive data pipelines, helping teams balance performance with compliance. Based in Renton, Washington, Rong brings a pragmatic engineering mindset forged in large organizations and a knack for operationalizing complex data workflows. Beyond core systems work, her early internships at Bloomberg and Merck reflect a long-standing interest in applying software to domain-specific research and business problems.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Michigan
Shanghai Jiao Tong University