Cong Shi
Software Engineer at square
Summary
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RockstarCong Shi is a mobile engineer with nine years of professional experience building consumer-facing apps at Square in the San Francisco Bay Area. He moved from an early role at Square in 2014 to a current senior position since 2018, demonstrating long-term product ownership and deep domain knowledge in payments and mobile platforms. His academic background includes a PhD-level education in computer science from Georgia Tech and both bachelor’s and master’s degrees from Shanghai Jiao Tong University, reflecting strong research foundations applied to production systems. Prior research internships at AT&T Labs and Bell Labs point to a habit of blending rigorous experimentation with pragmatic engineering. Based in the Bay Area and identified on GitHub as a Square engineer, he brings a rare combination of academic depth and sustained, hands-on experience shipping mobile software at scale.
10 years of coding experience
Github Skills (47)
objective-c10
ios10
java10
functional-testing10
bazel-rules10
ios-application10
protocol-buffers9
podspec9
caching9
kotlin9
android9
bazel9
grpc9
swift9
git-clone9
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
bazel-ios/bazel-buildfarm
Sep 2023 - Apr 2026
Bazel remote caching and execution service
Contributions:7 reviews, 13 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 7 months
bazelcaching
congt/rules_xcodeproj
Nov 2024 - Nov 2024
Bazel rules for generating Xcode projects.
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 11 days
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