Steven Song
Senior Software Engineer at StackAdapt
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Song is a senior backend engineer with eight years of experience building scalable systems for high-throughput, revenue-driven platforms. He’s delivered impactful work at Equativ/Sharethrough improving ad exchange efficiency and privacy compliance, and previously optimized recommendation quality and diversity on Twitter’s Home timeline. Comfortable across Scala, C#, and Node.js, he focuses on distributed services, rate limiting, and recommendation systems that move business metrics. Earlier roles show a pattern of building fast search and logging infrastructure for large datasets, and he brings practical cloud and NLP integration experience from LightBox. Based in Toronto, he combines production-first engineering with a knack for replacing brittle heuristics with measurable experiments to drive sustainable growth.
8 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 Toronto - Woodsworth CollegeOntario Secondary School Diploma, Computer Science, Ontario Secondary School Diploma, Computer Science at Sir John A. Macdonald Collegiate Institute
Chinese, English
Github Skills (10)
react5
material-ui5
datagrid3
datatable3
sounds1
vui1
sphinx1
voice-recognition1
voice1
sam1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
ssong42/Wireframe-Graphics
Mar 2018 - Jul 2018
Contributions:9 commits, 20 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
ssong42/30DaysOfMeditation
Jun 2019 - Sep 2020
Contributions:5 commits, 12 pushes, 3 branches in 1 year 3 months
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