About

Hongbing Kou is a highly experienced Senior Software Engineer at Uber with over 19 years of relevant experience in software development. He is an expert in JAVA and has advanced skills in C/C++. He can work with many programming languages such as Scala, Python, Pig, C#, SQL, Java Script, among others. Hongbing is strong in object-oriented analysis and development, and knowledgeable in software design patterns and UML. He is well-versed in J2EE including EJB, Servlet, JSP, Java Server Faces (JSF), SOAP, Web Service (Axis2), AJAX, Spring, Spring IntegrationHibernate, Java Native Interface (JNI). Hongbing has extensive experience with databases such as Postgres, Oracle, SQL Server, and MongoDB. Hongbing is a dependable team member with strong analytic capabilities at resolving challenging technique issues. He is well-trained in machine learning and functional programming. His specialties include Java, EJB, c, c++, java, sql, c#, jsp, xml, Eclipse, ANT, Maven, CVS, hudson, Subversion, ClearCase, ClearQuest, IIS, tomcat, jboss, Weblogic, test-driven development, scrum, COM, OLE, active directory, Kerberos, oracle, sql server, linux, android, Git, Jenkins, Hadoop, Pig, Cassandra, scala, and Play Framework. Currently, Hongbing works at Uber as a Senior Software Engineer, where he designed and implemented Uber’s places multi-channel editing refresh pipeline, allowing refresh and curation of Uber’s places data to drive down pick-up and drop-off location errors. He also standardized Uber’s places data schema to UMM51 and made them country profile address schema compatible for places in Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Mexico, South Africa, Brazil, and India. In the past, Hongbing has worked at companies such as edmunds.com and citygrid media, where he led development teams and was responsible for the scalability of their ad solutions. He has also overhauled and standardized Citysearch’s data pipeline in Hadoop Pig for directory, browsing, recommendation, sitemap, and content feed. Hongbing has a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the University of Hawaii at Manoa. His technical skillset includes software engineering, SQL, Java, Spark, Hadoop, Spring, Web, MongoDB, Jenkins, AWS, Search, Cassandra, CI/CD, Big Data, Mobile, Senior Software Engineer, test