Sunheng Taing
Principal Software Engineer at Salesforce
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSunheng Taing is a Principal Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-scale data platforms and AI-powered products at Salesforce, Uber, and venture-backed startups. He has led architecture and delivery for metadata, governance, and conversational AI platforms—delivering systems that handle tens of thousands of QPS with four-nines uptime and managing hundreds of petabytes of data. As a founding technical lead he shipped a data governance product integrating Snowflake and BigQuery, cutting compute costs 60% and speeding processing 10x through a Kubernetes/Terraform/Argo stack. He combines hands-on systems engineering in Golang, Java, Kafka, and distributed workflows with strong cross-functional leadership, OKR-driven roadmaps, and SOC2/compliance experience. Based in San Francisco, he’s drawn to thorny infrastructure and semantic-data problems where product impact, cost efficiency, and operational reliability intersect.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (27)
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machine-learning8
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data-engineering7
argo-workflows7
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Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sunheng/ChipotleDash
Dec 2015 - Jan 2018
Amazon Dash Button that orders Chipotle instead of the programmed product.
Contributions:4 commits, 1 PR, 2 pushes in 2 years 1 month
creditpythondashdash-buttonamazon
sunheng/UserFeedbackSystem
Feb 2015 - Sep 2015
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 7 months
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