Summary
Steven Truong is a Research Scientist at Meta and a PhD candidate in mathematics at UCLA with eight years of software engineering experience spanning full-stack development, distributed systems, and cloud-native services. He has shipped production features and tooling at Meta and Amazon Lab126—ranging from Electron app refactors and TypeScript/C++ data marshaling to AWS CDK-driven serverless pipelines that power customer-facing Alexa integrations. Comfortable across Java, TypeScript, Node.js, and C++, he has a track record of improving developer productivity and system reliability by consolidating configuration, reducing test/build times, and instrumenting data-driven debugging workflows. His academic training in mathematical computation informs a rigorous, analytical approach to problem solving, and he pairs that with practical engineering instincts honed through internships and large-scale collaborations. Notably, he redesigned internal tooling to allow runtime-configurable backends, a subtle shift that unlocks more flexible developer workflows and faster iteration.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mark Keppel High School
University of California, Los Angeles