Johnson Hsieh
@johnsonhsieh
Senior Software Engineer specializing in distributed systems, performance, and cloud-native architecture.
United StatesWhat I'm looking for
I am a Senior Software Engineer with 10+ years building scalable distributed systems across mobile, cloud, and enterprise platforms, with experience at Google, Microsoft, and Meta. I focus on backend architecture, modern web frameworks, large-scale performance optimization, and observability.
At Google I advanced Android display subsystems and led ChromeOS enterprise validation, delivering battery-life improvements, higher test coverage, and faster triage through instrumentation, analytics pipelines, and CI/CD validation frameworks. I build production-grade tools and pipelines in C/C++, Java/Kotlin, Python, and TypeScript while collaborating closely with platform, release, and SRE teams.
I bring a results-driven engineering ethos: shipping robust, observable systems that scale, reducing outages and manual work, and improving user and enterprise outcomes through automation, testing, and data-driven decision making.
Experience
Work history, roles, and key accomplishments
Led display subsystem and ChromeOS enterprise testing initiatives, delivering adaptive Variable Refresh Rate optimizations that added 1–1.5 hours battery life and built CI validation frameworks that increased test coverage to 90%, preventing frequent release outages.
Built recommendation engines and REST APIs for employee learning, increasing engagement by 2–3 hours per active user per month and delivering sub-185ms API responses for thousands of daily users.
Software Developer
Meta
Jun 2017 - Sep 2018 (1 year 3 months)
Enhanced large-scale moderation automation and interfaces, improving classifier precision from 86% to 89% and reducing review turnaround for high-priority queues from hours to minutes.
Software Developer
State Farm
Aug 2015 - Jun 2017 (1 year 10 months)
Developed data quality monitoring and analytics services, implementing Spring/Hibernate solutions that cut discrepancy resolution from 2–3 days to under 1 day and eliminated ~30% of manual intervention.
Education
Degrees, certifications, and relevant coursework
University of Michigan College of Engineering
Bachelor's Degree, Computer Engineering
2011 - 2015
Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Engineering completed with focus on hardware-software integration and systems engineering.
Tech stack
Software and tools used professionally
Google Tag Manager
GitHub
Kubernetes
Cloudflare
Jenkins
GitHub Actions
React Native
DB
MySQL
PostgreSQL
MongoDB
Gmail
Rollout
Node.js
Django
Spring Boot
.NET Core
Next.js
NestJS
.NET
ASP.NET Core
Tailwind CSS
Google Analytics
Redis
Terraform
Bazel
React
Vue.js
Webpack
JavaScript
Python
HTML5
Java
CSS 3
PHP
Kotlin
ASP.NET
Kafka
RabbitMQ
FastAPI
Grafana
Prometheus
StatsD
Linux
Datadog
Elasticsearch
Zustand
TypeScript
React Testing Library
Docker
SQL
LangChain
Playwright
Cosmos
Farm
Factory
Availability
Location
United StatesAuthorized to work in
Salary expectations
Job categories
Skills
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