James Hong

JH

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James Hong

@jameshong1

Senior full-stack engineer focused on scalable, reliable platform systems.

What I'm looking for

I seek hands-on senior engineering roles building scalable, privacy-conscious platform systems, collaborating cross-functionally and mentoring engineers.

I am a senior full-stack engineer with extensive experience building scalable backend systems and modern frontend platforms at large tech companies. I have led cross-functional initiatives—designing menu and booking platforms, migrating APIs to GraphQL, and delivering AI-driven operations tooling—while driving reliability, performance, and developer productivity.

I excel as a hands-on technical lead who mentors engineers, defines architecture and observability practices, and partners with product, design, data science, and compliance teams to deliver privacy-conscious, high-impact features. My work spans Go, Java, Python, Node.js, Ruby on Rails, React/TypeScript, distributed systems, and cloud-native deployments.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

UB

Senior Software Engineer

Uber

Mar 2020 - Sep 2025 (5 years 6 months)

Led platform and product initiatives across Uber Eats, Rider onboarding, and AI-driven operations tools, delivering a menu platform, AI assistant automation, and a company-wide GraphQL migration to improve reliability and engineering velocity.

Go Python MySQL Redis Kafka Kubernetes GraphQL Prometheus

AI

Software Engineer

Sep 2013 - Nov 2019 (6 years 2 months)

Built scalable booking APIs and modernized frontend systems, led service-splitting of a monolith into SOA, and drove React adoption and a shared UI component library to improve performance and developer velocity.

Ruby on Rails React JavaScript MySQL Redis Webpack Docker CircleCi Storybook

Education

Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework

FU

Florida International University

Bachelor of Science, Computer Science

2008 - 2012

Completed a bachelor's degree program at Florida International University between 2008 and 2012.

Availability

Open to opportunities

Location

United States

Authorized to work in

Job categories

Software Engineer Back End Developer Front End Developer Automation Engineer API Developer Software Engineer Full Stack Engineer Technical Lead Platform Engineer Site Reliability Engineer Engineering Manager

Skills

HTML CSS JavaScript TypeScript React Redux Next.js NodeJS Express Go Spring Boot Ruby on Rails GraphQL gRPC MySQL PostgreSQL Redis MongoDB Elasticsearch Docker Kubernetes AWS CI CD Jest Cypress Terraform Kafka Prometheus Grafana OpenAI Responses API RESTful APIs OAuth 2.0 JWT Stripe Microservices Serverless Webpack Babel Figma Storybook ESLint Prettier Airflow Android SDK Azure DevOps Balsamiq Bower Browserify CSS Modules Canva Cassandra Chai CircleCi D3.Js Datadog ExpressJS fastAPI Firebase Formik GitHub GitHub Actions Gmail Google Analytics Google Cloud Platform Google Maps Google Tag Manager Hadoop Homebrew Junit Java Jenkins Jira Kotlin Linux Mapbox Mixpanel Mocha Nginx NestJS Objective C OpenAPI PHPUnit Playwright Postman Prisma RSpec RabbitMQ React Native React Query React Testing Library Review Board SQLAlchemy Shadcn Ui Shopify SoapUI Strapi Supabase Supertest Superset TestCafe Toolkit TypeORM Ubuntu Vite WebRTC Webflow WordPress Xamarin Yarn Zapier Zendesk Zustand iOS jQuery NPM Pnpm Rollup styled components TailwindCSS

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