Summary
Tim Hung is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building low-latency, scalable systems at Bloomberg, currently focused on the autocomplete engine for the Bloomberg Terminal. He has deep expertise in real-time data pipelines, Kafka-based ingestion, multi-level caching and sharded architectures that reduced end-to-end latency below 50ms while handling thousands of messages per second. Tim has driven instrumentation and telemetry efforts, devised exponential-decay ranking for user hits, and created self-service validation tools that paved the way for real-time personalization. His background in data ingestion and ML infrastructure, combined with early experience at Microsoft and competitive programming coaching, gives him a practical blend of systems engineering and algorithmic problem solving. Based in New York, he’s open to new software engineering opportunities and known for uncovering subtle production bugs and turning them into lasting platform improvements.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates, High School Diploma, High School/Secondary Diplomas and Certificates at Lynbrook Senior High School
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics, Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Mathematics at Thomas J. Watson College of Engineering and Applied Science, Binghamton University
English, Chinese, Spanish, taiwanese hokkien