Steven Truong
Research Scientist at Meta
Los Angeles, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven 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.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Mark Keppel High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Github Skills (9)
discord-bot9
discord9
typescript7
electron6
github6
git5
macos-big-sur3
github-desktop2
macos1
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
stevenktruong/math-website
May 2021 - Mar 2025
math.ucla.edu/~steven
Contributions:7 PRs, 128 pushes in 3 years 11 months
mathmathematicsstevenuclalatex
stevenktruong/pug-bot
Jun 2018 - Aug 2020
A bot for managing pick-up games on Discord.
Contributions:98 commits, 83 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 2 months
gamesdiscordbotpickdiscord-bot
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