Alex Kong

Experience

1. Senior Software Engineer

   Google

   Apr 2019 — Present

   Tech Lead - Web Platform Capabilities (Boq Web)3x Core Tech Impact Award recipientOur team owns Google\'s proprietary web metaframework for building and serving Google\'s web apps, such as Image Search, Photos, Chat, Gemini, NotebookLM, News, Finance, Meet, and hundreds more, both external and internal. The metaframework provides: deep integration with UI frameworks (Angular, Wiz, AngularDart), infrastructure for bringing up Google-scale frontend servers that specialize in performance and security, integrations with critical internal Google services, CI/CD for the frontend server and web binary, and more. Our product weaves critical Google services and infrastructure together so that developers can focus on application development.I lead our team\'s efforts to develop more capabilities and provide integrations with additional recommended Google technologies on our platform.Previously:GCP Console Platform - Software EngineerDevelop core web backends/servers and microservices serving Google Cloud Console, the largest Angular single page application in the world (http://console.cloud.google.com/).Specialize in reliability, performance, monitoring and alerting, developer tools, security compliance, production access reduction.Java, Python, Bazel/Blaze, Protobuf, APIs, Typescript, Soy.

Education

• University of California, Berkeley

  Computer Science

  2010 — 2014

Skills

• Web Development
• C++
• Javascript
• Html 5
• Java
• C
• Ruby on Rails
• Css
• Html
• Software Development
• Python
• Operating Systems
• Software Engineering
• Html5