I’m an engineer who cares about researching socially impactful problems, then building high-quality systems to solve them. My technical interests lie in cloud infrastructure, databases, and distributed systems.
At Applied, my team and I built and scaled Cloud Engine, a platform to help companies continuously validate and deploy autonomous vehicles via simulation. I’ve worked on and led several projects. Here are some of my favorites:
- Optimized our results search platform by >99%, allowing end-users to load and analyze millions of simulation results in milliseconds, not minutes. This project became an organization-wide effort to track and triage our most expensive queries.
- Drove stability and decoupling for our CI services, enabling end-users to run millions of simulations per day with zero downtime. This project introduced a fundamental shift for our team: from manual quality assurance sweeps and a five-week release cycle to automated testing and progressive daily rollouts.
I graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in Computer Science and a B.A in Data Science. At Cal, I spent much of my time developing software for non-profits, teaching databases, and conducting data systems research.
Outside of work, I enjoy home-cooking, world history, and amateur boxing. View my resumé or shoot me an email at micahtyong@gmail.com.