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William Hung — Senior Backend Engineer

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Creative backend engineer building AI-powered ad-creative services, video generation pipelines, and reliability systems at scale.

Built a greenfield AI decision microservice and delivered dynamic video ads across Asian markets within single sprints. Grew sprint velocity from 11 to 75 story points per month by building and sharing AI-driven development workflows with the team.

Root-cause oriented. I focus on identifying the real problem and fixing it once, so the same failure does not come back.

Experience

[Senior Engineer] Appier

Oct 2025 - Present

Built a greenfield AI creative-decision microservice. Delivered dynamic video ads across 3 Asian markets within single sprints.

Creative team backend engineer building AI-powered creative services, video generation pipelines, performance analytics, and reliability systems for the advertising platform.

Sprint Velocity
75 SP/mo
from 11 SP/mo (6.8x)
Capture Pass Rate
100%
from 35%
Crop Content-Safety
140/140
0 important-area cuts
Video CTR Uplift
4x
0.2% to 0.8%

Key Achievements:

  • Built a greenfield AI creative-decision microservice (FastAPI, 4,300 lines, 3 repos) with a content-aware crop and fill-color engine that unions 4 CV/ML detectors, achieving 100% crop content-safety on a 140-sample benchmark with zero important-area cuts.
  • Delivered dynamic video ads for 3 Asian markets within single sprints, lifting CTR from 0.2% to 0.8% (4x) on the first campaign. A follow-up multi-language personalized video pipeline forecasts a 6x CTR uplift.
  • Migrated the creative-performance data pipeline from scheduled batch to event-driven architecture, cutting trigger latency from 47 min to 19 min and data freshness from hours to seconds. Pipeline runs dropped 40 to 60%.
  • Raised screenshot-capture pass rate from 35% to 100% across 3 rounds of hardening. Shipped OOM backpressure (19/19 captures lost to 0), accelerated a GraphQL endpoint p50 3.95x, and cut browser-rendering p50 8x (48.4 s to 6.0 s).
  • Drove a creative asset management platform from PRD wireframe to production, designing the backend API layer (46 files, 3 DB migrations) so 4 frontend engineers could develop in parallel within 2 sprints.
  • Cut infrastructure cost by 35% and deploy time by 16% via VM-to-Kubernetes migration. Migrated Kafka producers plaintext to SSL across 4 repos and 3 teams ahead of a hard cutoff. Closed 4 CVEs via Go 1.20 to 1.25 upgrade.
  • Built an internal AI-tooling plugin marketplace adopted by the team mid-cycle. Doubled story points (36 to 75) via a self-built AI iteration workflow. Held knowledge-sharing sessions on AI-driven development practices.

[Senior Engineer] Trend Micro

Sep 2022 - Oct 2025

Resolved AWS CloudFormation limits, reducing deployment time by 66%.

Developed enterprise cloud security products (V1FS, V1CAM) for multi-cloud environments across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud, focusing on cloud asset security and event-driven bucket protection strategies.

Deploy Time
-66%
Serverless Compose migration
Cloud Platforms
4
AWS / Azure / GCP / Alibaba
Products Shipped
3
V1FS, V1FSS, V1FS SDK
Certification
SAA-C03
AWS Solutions Architect

Key Achievements:

  • Architected robust authentication system using OIDC with least privilege principles, enhancing security posture for customer access management.
  • Resolved AWS CloudFormation limits by implementing serverless compose framework, reducing deployment time by 66% while maintaining infrastructure stability.
  • Developed comprehensive file security solutions including cloud-based V1FSS and V1FS SDK enabling secure file scanning for both cloud and on-premises environments.
  • Contributed to multi-cloud development across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud using Go, Node.js, and Python.
  • Implemented modern DevOps practices using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform for rapid feature deployment.
  • Obtained AWS Solutions Architect Associate certification (SAA-C03).

Reference:

V1FS, V1CAM, OIDC, CloudFormation limit, Serverless Compose, V1FSS, V1FS SDK, SAA-C03

[Intern] eCloudvalley Digital Technology

Feb 2022 - May 2022

Architected a cloud-native learning platform with hands-on labs for certification prep.

Designed and developed cloud technology learning solutions focusing on AWS and Azure platforms, featuring interactive training environments and assessment capabilities.

Key Achievements:

  • Architected cloud-native learning platform integrating mind-map visualization and hands-on labs for cloud certification preparation.
  • Delivered technical presentation on computer vision solutions at company's AI Conference.

Reference:

eCloudValley Official, Conference Link

[Scholarship] Academia Sinica

Dec 2021 - May 2022

Key Achievements:

  • Participated in 5, 6G research & Blood Pressure Patent project.

Reference:

Academia Sinica Official, Blood Pressure Patent

[Intern] Quanta Cloud Technology

Jun 2021 - Nov 2021

Won the nationwide 5G R&D competition — 1st place.

Key Achievements:

  • Participated in 5G research & won the R&D Nationwide competition 1st place award.

Reference:

QCT Website, R&D 1st place award news

Skills

  • Python Python
  • Go Go
  • Shell Shell
  • JavaScript JavaScript
  • TypeScript TypeScript
  • Docker Docker
  • Kubernetes Kubernetes
  • GitHub Actions GitHub Actions
  • Jenkins Jenkins
  • Serverless Serverless
  • Terraform Terraform
  • AWS AWS
  • Azure Azure
  • GCP GCP
  • Promethus Promethus

Education

National Central University

Aug 2020 to Aug 2022 at National Central University

Key Achievements:

  • Master Student in Communication Engineer, GPA 4.3/4.3
  • Member of Phi Tau Phi Scholastic Honor Society
  • Outstanding Student Scholarship award

Reference:

Nation Central University Website, What is Phi Tau Phi?

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