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Jun Ouyang - Tech Lead in San Francisco, CA

Jun Ouyang

Principal Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in distributed systems, payments, and reliability

DoorDashZhejiang UniversitySan Francisco, CA20 Years ExperiencePrincipal LevelWorks On-Site

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Backend engineer with DoorDash experience building production-critical systems spanning LLM-based real-time safety moderation (SendBird callbacks + ChatGPT risk scoring with automated actions) and large-scale payments data pipelines (Kafka to CockroachDB with aggregation APIs). Also led cross-team reliability work to standardize SLOs and drove an incident redesign from batch pull to real-time push callbacks to eliminate critical-event latency.

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Key Strengths

  • Built and shipped production LLM-based safety moderation with automated enforcement actions
  • Improved customer satisfaction scores by 11%+ via real-time message risk evaluation
  • End-to-end ownership across BFF/backend, persistence, and actioning workflows
  • Cost/performance optimization through experimentation comparing Moderation vs Chat Completions APIs
  • Led cross-team SLO consolidation and execution rigor across three engineering teams
  • Delivered measurable reliability targets (Tier-0 99.99%; 80% Tier-1 99.9%; Tier-2 99.5%)
  • Strong backend/system design for scale (Kafka ingestion, CockroachDB, aggregation jobs, API design)
  • Data-modeling decision-making validated via guidance review, platform-team alignment, and experiments
  • Incident leadership: reduced crisis-event latency from ~20 minutes to ~2 minutes and redesigned to real-time push callbacks
  • Implemented metrics and alerts to prevent recurrence and ensure SLO compliance

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Experience

Tech LeadDoorDash · May 2020 – Aug 2025
Senior Software EngineerZoox · Jan 2020 – Apr 2020
Staff Software EngineerAppDynamics (Cisco) · Apr 2016 – Jan 2020
Senior Software EngineerTangoMe Inc. · Sep 2014 – Apr 2016
Software EngineerActuate · Oct 2005 – Sep 2014
Software EngineerAugmentum · Apr 2005 – Dec 2005

Education

Zhejiang Universitymaster, Computer Science (2005)
Zhejiang Universitybachelor, Chemical Engineer (2002)

Languages

English

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Jun OuyangPrincipal Software Engineer / Tech Lead specializing in distributed systems, payments, and reliability