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Shengda Ding

Foster City

Summary

Adaptable full-stack Software Engineer with expertise in leading projects from conception to post-release. Certified Java EE and AWS architects. Enthusiastic blockchain and distributed application developer, enhancing user engagement through innovative software solutions. Strong problem-solving skills and a passion for advancing technology initiatives.

Overview

10
10
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification

Work History

Software Engineer

Google Inc.
San Bruno
01.2023 - Current
  • Led a team of three engineers in designing and developing the merchant onboarding and management platform for the YouTube Affiliate Program, scaling onboarded merchants from 50 to over 50,000.
  • Drove the cross-team effort to improve merchant onboarding performance, decreasing the merchant onboarding time from days to hours.
  • Designed and implemented the shopping entry point in YouTube Living Room, increasing the YouTube shopping traffic volume by 4%.
  • Advocated for engineering best practices, driving the team's adoption of the latest security and compliance standards.

Technical Partner

Extra Finance
San Francisco
07.2021 - 12.2022
  • Led a team of 10 engineers and UI designers in developing and launching decentralized applications across multiple blockchains, including Ethereum, BSC, Polygon, Polkadot, etc.
  • Architected and implemented a decentralized lending and borrowing application on the Polkadot network, raising over $6M in token presale.
  • Designed a novel asset synthesis algorithm and developed a synthetic asset protocol on the Ethereum and BSC networks, attracting over $10M in user funds and raising over $4M in the seed round.
  • Architected and implemented a financial instrument development and publication platform on the Ethereum network, raising over $1M in the seed round.

Software Engineer

Google Inc.
Mountain View
02.2019 - 06.2021
  • Initiated and implemented an end-to-end dataset management platform, empowering the creation, sharing, and discovery of over 50,000 human-labeling datasets within Google Research.
  • Designed and developed data management infrastructure that provides out-of-the-box wipeout and GDPR compliance in Google Research, reducing the dataset management cost by 30%.
  • Drove the test-driven development best practices, increasing test coverage by 20% in Google’s human computation products.

Senior Software Engineer

Sigma Trading
Los Angeles
04.2018 - 01.2019
  • Architected a large-scale order email processing pipeline with Redis, ElasticSearch, and Kafka, processing billions of emails from over a million users.
  • Led a large-scale migration from a monolithic Java EE server to a cloud-native microservices architecture based on Spring Cloud and Kubernetes, cutting overall infrastructure costs by 80%.
  • Designed and implemented a code-based CI/CD infrastructure, reducing environment bootstrap time from days to minutes, and reducing service deployment time by 90%.
  • Optimized user experience in Moola web, Android, and iOS apps, reducing user bounce rate by 40%.

Senior Software Engineer

Oracle
Redwood City
07.2017 - 04.2018
  • Led a team of three engineers in designing and launching critical features of Oracle Load Balancer as a Service (LBaaS), and decreased overall proxy latency by 20%.
  • Implemented automated deployment, monitoring, and maintenance infrastructure for LBaaS, decreasing the service downtime by 10%.
  • Worked closely with the business team on the technical strategy of LBass, both as a standalone product and as an integral part of other Oracle Public Cloud services.

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
Redwood City
07.2015 - 06.2017
  • Developed Oracle Public Cloud service infrastructure in Java EE and Oracle, reducing the average cloud service launch time by 15%.
  • Drove a cross-functional effort to integrate Oracle Enterprise Manager and Oracle Identity Cloud Service with major Oracle Public Cloud services.
  • Spearheaded a team-wide initiative to adopt the latest Java EE standards, reducing implementation complexity, and enhancing system reliability.

Education

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
05-2015

Master of Science - Systems Engineering

University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
05-2014

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shanghai
05-2012

Skills

  • Fluent in Java, C, Python, Go, TypeScript, and Rust
  • Scalable, distributed system development
  • Blockchain application development
  • Problem-solving aptitude
  • Collaborative development planning
  • Effective communication

Certification

  • Oracle Certified Master, Java EE 6 Enterprise Architect
  • AWS Certified Solutions Architect - Professional
  • AWS Certified DevOps Engineer - Professional

Timeline

Software Engineer

Google Inc.
01.2023 - Current

Technical Partner

Extra Finance
07.2021 - 12.2022

Software Engineer

Google Inc.
02.2019 - 06.2021

Senior Software Engineer

Sigma Trading
04.2018 - 01.2019

Senior Software Engineer

Oracle
07.2017 - 04.2018

Member of Technical Staff

Oracle
07.2015 - 06.2017

Master of Science - Computer And Information Sciences

University of Pennsylvania

Master of Science - Systems Engineering

University of Pennsylvania

Bachelor of Science - Electrical And Computer Engineering

Shanghai Jiao Tong University
Shengda Ding