Yong Hii
Senior Software Engineer at 6sense
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolYong Hii is a Senior Software Engineer based in Singapore with 11 years of experience building resilient backend systems using Golang, Python (Django), and Ruby on Rails. He has a strong track record of performance and scalability improvements—cutting queue latencies from hours to under a minute, slashing AI personalization latency by 60% through async parallelization, and optimizing streaming for autonomous vehicle logs with up to 90% memory reductions. At Grab he combined systems design with product features, shipping LLM-powered contextual quick replies and driving over $300k in annual messaging cost savings through vendor consolidation. He is pragmatic about observability and reliability, having integrated end-to-end testing and services to eliminate production timeouts and accelerate incident diagnosis. Comfortable across startups and large platforms, Yong brings a hands-on approach to complex distributed problems and a knack for squeezing large binary and streaming workloads into real-time pipelines.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.81, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 3.81 at Multimedia University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (48)
pytorch10
python10
data-science10
machine-learning10
deep-learning10
tensorflow10
neural-network9
jax9
reinforcement-learning8
gpu8
mmu8
row-level-security8
row8
numpy7
generative7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
HiiYL/News-Scraper
Feb 2016 - Aug 2016
Contributions:78 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 6 months
HiiYL/MMU-Hub
Apr 2015 - Jul 2017
Contributions:22 releases, 81 commits, 63 pushes in 2 years 3 months
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