Felix Wong Email & Phone Number

California, United States

Santa Monica, California, Us

I lead core engagement for SnapChat, covering Messaging, AI agents, media and mobile infrastructure. We are building one of the largest cloud-based media infrastructure and cross-platform mobile systems supporting our 850M users. We are hiring for a few critical roles, please contact me if you are interested.- L7/Principle engineers on iOS re-architecture- L7/Principle engineers on cross-platform development (Valdi: our Typescript based runtime)- L7 Media infrastructure Senior manager - L7 Mobile Senior manager for performance, reliability, efficiency and engineering productivity- Senior engineers across Mobile, Media and Messaging

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

2023 is my year of deep dive into AI. I helped develop the ML Infrastructure for monetization, a system that provides personalized recommendation across 3B users for FB & IG, generating annual revenue of $130b. My work spans across LLM based user/content understanding, feature/modelling exploration, training/serving scaling, and ML developer productivity.- Through analysis and reliability improvement across feature compilation and roll-out, successfully improved end-to-end latency of feature/model roll-out by 20%.- Incubated Llama-based content understanding system for personalization, successfully balanced high GPU-demand of LLMs and accuracy via clustering techniques.

Menlo Park, Ca, Us

Previously I led Messaging Platform where we delivered the messaging system used by 3 billion people across Instagram, FB, Messenger. Grew team from 10 to 250.Key accomplishments across FB career:Messaging- Led Messenger 4 User experience redesign from 9 tabs to 3. (1.4 billion MAU across iOS/Android/Web)[150 engineers] - Launched Jan 2019- Led Lightspeed (Messenger iOS mobile-first rewrite: 350M MAU) [350 engineers]. Reduced App startup-time from 8.4s to 1.7s, binary size from 220mb to 30mb. Launched Feb 2020- Led Android modernization with cross-platform Lightspeed kernel, successfully unified codebase across iOS/Android/Windows achieving next-level reliability, user-experience consistency, and development productivity. Launched Dec 2022 - Delivered cross-platform Messaging system from scratch, powering IG direct, Messenger, FB, Oculus, and Smartglasses across 3 billion users, 60 billion messages/day. Launched 2022Machine Learning- Delivered client-side Machine-learning model for messaging, powering search, recommendations and face detection - Launched Jan 2021Growth-Led team to doubled FB Communities DAU from 150M to 300M in 10 months, via ML techniques, growth funnel optimizations, and GYSJ ("Groups You May Join") (Dec 2015).Engineering Culture- Helped create and run the culture onboarding programs for all senior engineers and managers joining Meta.- Since 2017, all new senior engineers and managers joining the company went through the culture training I created.

San Francisco, Ca, Us

I enjoy meeting smart people and helping other entrepreneurs change the world. I am an investor to early stage start-up.On top of investing, also single-handedly coded and shipped the Android app for Weave.Weave unlocks Business Networking for the masses. A mobile app that helps you meet interesting professionals near you. Whenever you are open to connecting, you can use Weave to review interesting professionals nearby. If they also want to meet you, Weave will connect you both.Search for "Weave Networking" on iOS or Android.

Redmond, Wa, Us

I led a team of 80 engineers and 10 managers lauching Skype for Meetings. The service grew to 500M DAP, allow users to meet and share experiences whenever they are, from the living room to the boardroom.Grew product 3x to $1B annually by - Creation of multi-platform multi-modality meeting experience across Windows, Web, Mobile- Architected and launched large-scale meeting broadcast service serving up to 10k attendees- Incubated and brought to market an integrated hardware/software turn-key solution

Redmond, Washington, Us

Led team of 35 to launch the first version of the Office Communication Client (Lync) to enable multi-person real-time video, voice and online collaboration such as whiteboarding, screen-sharing, powerpoint presentation.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Incubated and brought to market V1 of Windows Server Assessment and Deployment platform. Led a team of 20 to deliver the product on schedule.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of the Identity Integration Server development team. Architected the Database design and implementation. Led a team of 8 to deliver the core synchronization infrastructure and communication agents.

Redmond, Washington, Us

Member of the Windows 2000 development team. Responsible for the design and implementation of the first version of Active Directory and directory synchronization, competing against Novel Netware.

Bachelor Of Applied Science, Computer Engineering

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