Difan Hong

About

Extended experience in Cloud Computing industry, with a focus on: Distributed Storage System, Serverless Computing, Site Reliability Engineering, Computer Networks.

Experience

• Staff Software Engineer at Tencent
  May 2021 - Present · 5 yrs 2 mos

  Reliability of machine learning infrastructure at scale.

• Google (5 yrs 3 mos)
  • Senior Software Engineer, Site Reliability Engineering
    Oct 2019 - Apr 2021 · 1 yr 7 mos

    Serverless SRE. Working with dev org to build next generation Serverless infra and ensure the new infra is reliable and scalable.

  • Site Reliability Engineer
    Sep 2018 - Oct 2019 · 1 yr 2 mos

    Serverless SRE. Supporting App Engine Standard, App Engine Flexible, Google Cloud Functions, and Cloud Run control planes and asynchronous event delivery. With a focus on App Engine control planes and Cloud Functions control planes.

  • Site Reliability Engineer
    May 2017 - Sep 2018 · 1 yr 5 mos

    App Engine Storage SRE. Supported Cloud Datastore/Firestore, Memcache, Cloud Tasks, Cloud Scheduler etc., Focused on Cloud Datastore and Memcache.

• Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services
  Jun 2014 - Feb 2016 · 1 yr 9 mos

  EC2 VPC Networking DataPlane team. Developed and maintained software for the softwre defined network behind EC2 VPC instances. The software manages access control, traffic control and routing of EC2 VPC network.

• Student Research Assistant at Carnegie Mellon University(Computational Engineering Robotic Laboratory)
  Jan 2013 - Jun 2014 · 1 yr 6 mos

  Automatic Generation of a Pattern of Geometric Features for Industrial Design ● Designed computational tool in C++ that applies bubble packing algorithm to pattern generation ● Designed pen-based GUI using OpenGL and interpolate the user input into a Tensor Field ● Visualize effect of bubble packing with OpenGL in 3D, and generates anisotropic pattern on Inventor 3D model automatically