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Richard Hong

Canadian Software Engineer

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h-richard.com

Richard Hong is a Chinese-Canadian software engineer, computer scientist and cook. He is currently located in San Francisco, CA and works as a Software Engineer at Meta. He occasionally posts educational software engineering videos on his YouTube channel. In the future, Richard hopes to own and drive the all new 2023 Ford F150® Lightning™ Pro.

Born: February, 2000 (age 24 years), Shenyang, Liaoning
Height: 1.73 m (5 feet 8 and 7/64 inches)*
Education: University of Toronto (2022)
Net Worth: $72.9 USD (June, 2021)

Meta | Software Engineer

Engineering lead in VR Growth and VR Travel. Spearheaded novel ML products to increase social connections and interactions. Scoped, designed, and led the execution of a 20+ project roadmap, across 17 researchers and engineers.
Backend, Infra, Machine Learning, Frontend, DevOps, Mobile
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Augmentr | Engineering Lead

Worked with NestJS, Prisma, Postgres, AWS S3, CDK, EKS, Kubernetes, GraphQL, and TypeScript.
Infra, Backend, DevOps
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Coinbase | Software Engineer

Worked with React Native, TypeScript, Go, gRPC, and GraphQL. Was laid off after the company discovered that he stole 3 cans LaCroix™ Sparkling Water during a company offsite in Zimbabwe.
Mobile, Frontend, Backend
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University of Toronto | Researcher

Bridging the gap between human and AI with Maia, a human-like chess engine built atop AlphaZero/Leela. Leveraged advanced Reinforcement Learning algorithms to trade crypto and lost all of his money due to a rounding error.
Machine Learning, Frontend
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Shopify | Software Developer Intern

Worked with Ruby on Rails, React, TypeScript, MySQL, and GraphQL. Took a lot of snacks (n >= 20) from the office once and nobody found out.
Frontend, Backend
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University of Toronto | Teaching Assistant

TA'd Computability and Computational Complexity, Discrete Math, Linear Algebra II, and Calculus I.
Computer Science, Math
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Amazon | Software Development Engineer Intern

Worked with AWS CDK, SageMaker, S3, DynamoDB, PrestoDB, Glue, Redshift, Athena, Lambda, Express, Lambda, PySpark, React and TypeScript. Built scalable data pipelines that ingest terabytes of data daily from the Commerce supply chain.
Data, Infra, DevOps, Backend
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NorthBoys | Software Engineer

Worked with React, TypeScript, and Redux. Built a performant point of sale application used by the physical retailers of the business.
Frontend

IBM | Software Engineer Intern

Worked with Elixir, Ruby, Python, Go, JavaScript, Kubernetes, Helm, Docker, AWS S3, and GraphQL. Achieved a highscore of 200 million (4th) on the Deadpool pinball machine on the second floor, also clapped the other interns in pool and ping pong.
DevOps, Backend, Frontend
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Google DSC | Project Lead

Worked with Flutter, Dart, React, JavaScript, GCP, Go, GraphQL, Postgres, Firebase and Kubernetes.
DevOps, Backend, Frontend

AMACSS | Director of IT

Oversaw the Frontend team in development of the organization's new website with Gatsby.

Network Re-Engineered Inc | Software Engineer

Worked with React Native, TypeScript, Streamchat, Chatkit and Firebase. Led the development of the messaging and calling feature.
Mobile, Backend

Via Cibo | Line Cook

Cooked pizzas, pastas, salads, paninos, piadinas, risottos, pancakes, and more.
Italian Food

Roux | Sous Chef

Made croissants, beignets, scones, creme brulee, steaks, fish, shrimp, cornbread, fried chicken, ceviche, omelettes, and more.
Creole Food, French Food

About

h-richard.com

Richard Hong is a Chinese-Canadian software engineer, computer scientist and cook. He is currently located in San Francisco, CA and works as a Software Engineer at Meta. He occasionally posts educational software engineering videos on his YouTube channel. In the future, Richard hopes to own and drive the all new 2023 Ford F150® Lightning™ Pro.

Born: February, 2000 (age 24 years), Shenyang, Liaoning
Height: 1.73 m (5 feet 8 and 7/64 inches)*
Education: University of Toronto (2022)
Net Worth: $72.9 USD (June, 2021)

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Building Performant Rust Backend Services on AWS Free Tier

Building a simple GraphQL API with me using Rust, Lambda and DynamoDB. Source code: https://github.com/H-Richard/rust-graphql-lambda Learn more about Rust: https://www.rust-lang.org/ Learn more about Lambda: https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/ Learn more about GraphQL: https://graphql.org/ Learn more about DynamoDB: https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/ Learn more about AWS Free Tier: https://aws.amazon.com/free/

YouTube · Richard Hong · April 16, 2024

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How I Build Backend Services in 2022

Building a simple GraphQL API with me using TypeScript, NestJS, and Prisma. Source code: https://github.com/H-Richard/backend-2022 Learn more about NestJS: https://nestjs.com/ Learn more about Prisma: https://www.prisma.io/ Learn more about GraphQL: https://graphql.org/ For the background music, check out: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaH9AQy86DBIg-BpWzj-csQ

YouTube · Richard Hong · July 11, 2022

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My Experience Getting Laid Off

Coinbase recently laid off 18% (N = 1,100) employees, and I was a part of it. I talk about my experience at the company, as well as what it was like during, before, and after the layoffs. I hope that everybody affected by the layoffs can quickly recover.

YouTube · Richard Hong · June 20, 2022

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Analyzing NBA Championships with Graph Theory

Last month 2020 NBA season ended with the LA Lakers winning their 17th franchise championship, at the same time, my Graph Theory course has been teaching the PageRank Algorithm. Today I'm going to see if I can apply what I've learned to analyze some of the more recent NBA Championship runs.

YouTube · Richard Hong · Nov 3, 2020

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Building Recursive Components in React

I took a nap earlier yesterday and had a dream about recursive components in React. So I decided to make a quick video on building these types of recursive components. Also, if I hit 2 likes on this video I'll make another React video sometime soon.

YouTube · Richard Hong · Oct 17, 2020

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Building a GraphQL Server with Golang and MongoDB

Building a GraphQL Server with Golang, MongoDB and live commentary. Learn to setup a simple GraphQL Server from scratch. Links referenced throughout the video: Source code: https://github.com/H-Richard/go-graphql howtographql: https://www.howtographql.com/graphql-... mongodb driver: https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-go-d... gqlgen: https://github.com/99designs/gqlgen

YouTube · Richard Hong · Aug 3, 2020

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JavaScript Essentials: Array Destructuring

Destructuring is a powerful syntax feature that came with the release of ES6. It lets us unpack data structures like arrays and objects into variables in a clean and elegant way. Today we explore some of the ways we can use array destructuring to our benefit. To learn more about object destructuring check out: https://youtu.be/2jbuJpiUSbo

YouTube · Richard Hong · June 19, 2020

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JavaScript Essentials: Object Destructuring

Destructuring is a powerful syntax feature that came with the release of ES6. It lets us unpack data structures like arrays and objects into variables in a clean and elegant way. Today we explore some of the ways we can use object destructuring to our benefit.

YouTube · Richard Hong · June 10, 2020

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Build a GraphQL Server with Deno and MongoDB

Deno is a modern JavaScript/TypeScript runtime built by the author of NodeJS. Today we'll take a look at how you can build a GraphQL Server with Deno and MongoDB. Source code: https://github.com/H-Richard/deno-gra... Learn more about Deno: https://deno.land/ Learn more about GraphQL: https://graphql.org/

YouTube · Richard Hong · June 6, 2020

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