Neuman Vong
Software Engineer at Apple
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNeuman Vong is a seasoned software engineer with 17 years of experience building high-performance backend systems and developer tooling, currently based in San Francisco and working on running LLMs locally. He has deep expertise in scalable, protocol-agnostic RPC and HTTP systems from long-term work on Twitter’s core libraries (Finagle, Finatra, twitter-server) and has led performance-focused teams that bridged networking, client apps, SRE, and data science to measurably improve user and business metrics. As an early engineer at Twilio he authored SDKs and client libraries (including twilio-php and Twilio Client), and his open-source contributions show a consistent focus on refactoring, deprecation migrations, and robust I/O and streaming primitives. He’s experienced migrating platforms to Kubernetes and modern infra patterns at Planet and Domino Data Lab, and recently joined Apple bringing that systems-level background to a major platform. Notably, he combines production-grade systems thinking with practical full‑stack chops—shipping UI and backend work for projects like OpenVBX—so he comfortably spans from low-level performance tweaks to user-facing features. His eclectic education in programming, project management and cognitive science underpins a pragmatic, human-centered approach to engineering trade-offs.
17 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Diploma Film Sound and Video, Diploma Film Sound and Video at Ngee Ann PolytechnicUniversity of California, San DiegoBComp Programming Project Management Cognitive Science, BComp Programming Project Management Cognitive Science at Monash University
Japanese, English
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Github Skills (43)
unit-testing10
utilities10
lib10
http-streaming10
back-end-development10
testing10
twilio-api10
http10
finagle10
io10
phpunit10
scala10
php10
utility10
finatra10
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
twitter/twitter-server
Jul 2014 - Sep 2018
Twitter-Server defines a template from which services at Twitter are built
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 1 comment in 4 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Neuman primarily contributed to the server-side components of the Twitter server, including implementing logging functionalities. They introduced an EventSink trait to capture logging events and integrated it within the application's core. Additionally, the user updated the project dependencies by bumping Jackson artifacts, enhancing the project's build configuration. The user also made contributions to testing frameworks within the repository.
twitterfinaglefinatra
twitter/finagle
May 2013 - Jul 2020
A fault tolerant, protocol-agnostic RPC system
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:114 commits, 15 PRs, 3 branches in 7 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Neuman contributed to the Finagle project by implementing features related to HTTP streaming, including the creation of stream interfaces for HTTP message bodies. They also worked on improving the performance and efficiency of HTTP encoders and dispatchers by modifying code to conditionally call super methods, or replacing the code with a more performant code. The user's work involved changes to core HTTP message handling, showing expertise in request and response processing within the Finagle framework.
fault-tolerantrpcdistributed-systemsfinaglehttp2
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