Shien Hong
Senior Software Engineer at Pinterest
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShien Hong is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years of experience building scalable product and infrastructure systems across startups and large tech companies. He has repeatedly shipped payments and payroll features at Square that scaled to hundreds of thousands of users and slashed manual processes—work that directly enabled rapid product growth and operational scaling. His background includes cloud networking at Microsoft and mission-driven tooling for NASA’s OSIRIS‑REx, reflecting comfort across distributed systems, backend automation, and data pipelines. Recently he’s continued this trajectory with senior engineering roles at Level, Mixpanel, and Pinterest, bringing deep experience in automation, underwriting workflows, and product activation. Colleagues would describe him as a pragmatic engineer who turns complex regulatory and operational constraints into reliable, automated systems.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
The University of ArizonaCorona Del Sol High School
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (27)
oh-my-zsh10
docker10
bash10
cli-app10
php10
shell10
zsh10
cli10
python9
rails9
homebrew9
spice9
macos9
sequential8
particle7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
honghsien5/n-body-simulation
Mar 2015 - Aug 2017
Using 2D n-body particle simulation to compare parallel and sequential computing performance.
Contributions:26 commits, 1 PR, 6 pushes in 2 years 5 months
particleparallelbodyn-bodysimulation
honghsien5/RoboticArm
Mar 2015 - Sep 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 5 months
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