Simon Wong
Software Engineer at Airbnb
San Diego, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Wong is a software engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems at high-growth companies, currently working at Airbnb after a multi-year tenure at Amazon. He designs and implements data pipelines and foundational Java services on AWS, with hands-on experience across Lambda, SQS, Kinesis, DynamoDB, ECS/Fargate and API Gateway. Simon has driven Tier-1 service improvements impacting 50+ clients, automated tedious processes with Python tooling, and led cross-team integrations and operational launches. Early work includes Go and MongoDB REST APIs and a React Native capstone product, showing comfort across languages and stacks. He pairs strong product collaboration—translating metrics and business requirements into technical designs—with an interest in organizational health, having driven employee-satisfaction initiatives. Based in San Diego and a UCSB CS alum, he brings both deep production experience and a knack for pragmatic automation.
9 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science at University of California, Santa Barbara
EnglishGithub contributions (5)
thatonesimon/Matchfolio
Nov 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:100 commits, 77 pushes, 7 branches in 3 months
thatonesimon/Processing
Apr 2018 - May 2018
Contributions:35 pushes, 1 branch in 27 days
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