I'm Chenrui Gu and I hold a Bachelor’s degree in CS from Cornell University College of Engineering. I currently work at TikTok and focus on building and optimizing highly scalable and low latency server side compliance rule engine.

Experience

2024 — NowTikTokSoftware Engineer

2024 — Now

旧金山湾区

TikTok Privacy Product

1. Technical owner of key compliance features across core TikTok products (feed, social, profile, creation, etc.)

2. Key contributor to the design/implementation of TikTok’s high throughput and low latency compliance engineering framework.

3. [2026] Proposed and iterating on an AI powered rule engine agent that automates the company’s e2e compliance with international laws

2023 — 2024NextdoorSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2024

New York, New York, United States

Worked as a software engineer in the Newsfeed Infrastructure and the Search Engine Optimization team

2022 — 2022MetaSoftware Engineer Intern

2022 — 2022

Sunnyvale, California

Built a full-stack web tool that automates STF generation.

Tech stack: React, GraphQL, Hack/PHP (Backend data model)

2021 — 2021Red HatSoftware Quality Engineering Intern

2021 — 2021

Beijing, China

Worked in the Openshift Cluster Manager (OCM) Quality Engineering team. Developed and maintained OCM User Interface automation testing scripts which are mainly written in Ruby. Contributed to the cucushift and verification-tests Git repository. Also design unit test cases for OCM and deployed the OCM weekly sanity testing through Jenkins.

Education

Cornell University

Bachelor of Science - BS

The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of China