Steven Hong

About Steven Hong

Software developer with 12+ years of industry experience, including:• Maintaining and iterating on a custom Bluetooth/BLE stack• Owning key systems and architecture of multiple public, customer facing Android apps• Modernizing Android projects through tasks such as migrating to Kotlin, introducing dependency injection with Dagger, implementing MVVM as a standard practice, and refactoring to use Android Architecture components• Developing and maintaining continuous integration/deployment configuration in CircleCI• Identifying severe bottlenecks in an existing codebase and leading a team of foreign contractors in fixing broken architecture in time to meet hard release deadlines• Designing and implementing cross-platform architecture for Android and iOSusing Xamarin• Writing bindings for native Java and Objective-C libraries in C# for Xamarin• Translating a C/C++ system on Windows Mobile to Java to be run on Android• Designing and implementing several key systems necessary for data translation between different message standards and routing and relaying messages• Working with a team under an Agile environment to develop a visualizationtool using Adobe Flex and the Elixir visualization toolkit• Developing a Java application for analysts to quickly sort and digest large sets of text using Natural Language Processing algorithms

Experience

1. Engineering Manager

   Acorns

   Jun 2025 — Present · Irvine, CA, US

Education

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  Bachelor of Science (BS), Computer Science

  2006 — 2010

Skills

• Mobile Product Development
• Sql
• Data Analysis
• Agile Methodologies
• Objective-C
• Perl
• Java
• Flex
• Android Development
• Javascript
• Ios Development
• Software Development
• Python
• Html
• C++
• Swift
• Cross-Platform Development
• Android
• C#