Shawn Jiang
Software Engineer at Meta
Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolShawn Jiang is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-throughput distributed systems and scalable web services, currently contributing at Meta after roles at Amazon and multiple engineering positions in healthcare and bioinformatics. He combines strong data structures and algorithms expertise with hands-on implementation across front-end (React), back-end (Vert.x, Akka), and databases (Cassandra, H2), and a track record of shipping production apps including a 4.83-rated Android health app. Academically rooted in algorithmic research, Shawn completed a thesis-based master's at Western University with publications and projects on string and tree-comparison algorithms for bioinformatics. He excels at cross-functional collaboration across geographies and consistently applies industry best practices to deliver resilient, high-quality systems. One distinguishing thread in his career is bridging research-grade algorithm work with product engineering—turning theoretical improvements in tree edit distance and sequence algorithms into practical tools and visualizations.
10 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0, Master’s Degree, Computer Science, 4.0/4.0 at Western UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8/4.0, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Software Engineering, 3.8/4.0 at Sun Yat-Sen University
mandarine(chinese), English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Shawn0630/shawn0630.github.io
Mar 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:34 pushes, 1 branch, 7 issues in 4 years 8 months
Shawn0630/TreeEditDistance
Jul 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:147 commits, 142 pushes, 2 branches in 7 months
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