Simon He
Software Engineer at Meta
Waterloo, Ontario, United States
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Top SchoolSimon He is a software engineer with eight years of hands-on experience building backend systems and test automation, currently working at Meta after internships at Apple, Tesla, Noom, and Tailscale. He brings practical expertise in secure networking and testing—contributing to Tailscale's WireGuard-based tooling by improving test control servers, IP handling, and ping behaviors. Comfortable in fast-moving product teams, he has rotated through localization, vehicle systems, and backend platform roles, demonstrating adaptability across domains. A University of Waterloo CS student-turned-professional, he pairs strong academic fundamentals with production experience at top tech companies. Beyond code, he’s a performer off-hours—an active juggler—reflecting a penchant for disciplined practice and focused multitasking.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (8)
testing10
go10
vpn10
wireguard10
tailscale10
test-automation10
networking9
cicd7
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
May 2021 - Aug 2021
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & Test Automation Engineer
Back-end Developer & Test Automation EngineerContributions:12 reviews, 66 commits, 19 PRs in 3 months
Contributions summary:Simon primarily contributed to the back-end functionality and integration testing of the Tailscale project. Their work involved modifying the test control server to include new fields for node configuration and implementing tests to verify these changes. They added functionality to the test control server to handle ping requests, and they updated the code to support more precise IP address handling. These contributions focused on improving the testing infrastructure and ensuring the correct behavior of the Tailscale VPN service.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
simenghe/simenghe.github.io
Sep 2019 - Dec 2022
personal
Contributions:3 PRs, 8 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 3 months
react
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