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    Felix Fung

    Felix Fung

    Current: Staff Engineer, @stripe Capital
    Past: EM @ Stripe, Eng @snapchat @vine

    Stripe Capital is hiring in NYC! Feel free to reach out

    Software Engineer Brooklyn University of Waterlo...
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    Experience
    Vine
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    Vine
    Tech Lead - Backend Engineering 2014 - 2016 (over 2 years)
    - Led team of 8 responsible for delivering all server side features as well as improving the reliability
    and performance of the platform.
    - Oversaw launches of Soundboard,... more longer-form Vines, and improvements to recommendation timelines and experimentation.
    - Led retrospectives, architecture design reviews, backlog prioritization, technical debt initiatives as well as being the eng-wide resource for product history and direction.
    - Developed architectures to interject and remove recommended content in timeline history.
    - Grew the Vine video transcoding pipeline to support: multi-device/resolution outputs, WebM input for Android clients and MPEG-DASH output for web.
    - Expanded Scalding-based data pipeline with analytics, recommendation, and user segmentation jobs.
    - Integrated data pipeline with online systems for targeted recommendations and push-marketing.
    - Built system to create, manage and deploy large-scale marketing push campaigns,
    - Built suggested searches on-top of lasticsearch for fuzzy-searching and autocompletin.
    Meta
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    Meta
    Software Engineering Intern 2011 (3 months)
    - Rebuilt the mobile web viewing experience (m.facebook.com) for photos. In addition to a
    redesign, reduced mobile photo page load-time by 25%.
    - Added APIs for cropping,... more sizing and centering photos for newsfeed thumbnails.
    Software Engineering Intern 2010 - 2011 (11 months)
    - Rebuilt the mobile web viewing experience (m.facebook.com) for photos with gracefully-degrading UI components and reduced mobile photo page load-time by ∼25%.
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    Meta, Vine, Mozilla, Twitter, Microsoft, Palantir Technologies, Snapchat, Stripe
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    Achievements

    - Patent Application. F. Fung, "Reducing Photo-Tagging Spam". Filed with Facebook Inc.
    - ACM-International Collegiate Programming Contest, 5th of 122 teams.
    - Canadian Computing Competition, Junior Division National Champion

    Describe the most impressive thing you've done.
    Skills
    Javascript Python Ruby on Rails AngularJS UI Design
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