Shihui Song
Director Of Product Management at Indeed.com
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolShihui Song (please call her Sweet) is a product leader and former systems engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling consumer-facing platforms and developer tooling. As Director of Product Management at Indeed and previously a Lead PM at Google, she has driven large-scale initiatives—such as scaling Google Discover to over a billion monthly users and enabling Android app support on Chromebooks—while balancing cross-functional stakeholder needs. Her technical roots include intern contributions to MongoDB’s mongo-hadoop connector, where she improved BSON comparison logic and added Lazy BSON support, reflecting hands-on backend and database expertise. She holds a CS master’s from Stanford and a BA in Computer Science and Economics from Cornell, combining rigorous technical training with product strategy. Known for translating complex systems into user and business impact, she brings both deep technical fluency and a track record of measurable outcomes.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Economics, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Computer Science and Economics at Cornell UniversityMaster's degree, Computer Science, Master's degree, Computer Science at Stanford University
Spanish, Chinese, English
Github Skills (16)
javas10
nodejs10
javascript10
websocket10
websockets-client10
websocket-client10
mongodb10
bson10
client-websocket10
java10
mongodb-database10
testing10
hadoop9
serialization9
data-serialization9
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
mongodb/mongo-hadoop
Jul 2013 - Aug 2013
MongoDB Connector for Hadoop
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:5 commits in 1 month
Contributions summary:Shihui primarily focused on optimizing and enhancing the `BSONComparator` class within the `mongodb/mongo-hadoop` repository. Their contributions involved improving the comparison logic for BSON objects, as demonstrated by the code diffs focusing on Java code. They also added support for Lazy BSON format and developed a `BSONSerDe` class, including unit tests, which showcases their ability to extend the project's functionality and adapt it for integration with other tools.
hadoopconnectormongodb
mongodb-labs/big-data-exploration
Jun 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:49 commits in 2 months
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