Hieu Pham

Principal Engineer

Hieu Pham is a Principal Engineer at Roblox since February 2025, focusing on developing next-generation database technology for internal and external customers. Simultaneously, Hieu is the author and maintainer of MuopDB, a vector database crafted in Rust, and leads the MuopDB project while mentoring others at TechCare Coaching. Previous experience includes serving as a Staff Software Engineer at Amplitude, where Hieu led significant subsystems of an in-house OLAP database, and at Meta, as a Staff Software Engineer leading the Packaging & Container team and authoring a publication for VLDB 2022. Hieu’s career also includes software engineering roles at Rockset, Facebook, Microsoft, and Google, spanning areas such as scalability, reliability, and data infrastructure. Hieu holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

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