# πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ Devin Gunay > Senior Software Engineer at Yendo Location: Los Angeles, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/devingunay I am a software engineer. I like to emphasize quality engineering practices and love learning new languages, tools, and stacks. I try my best to rise to the challenge in front of me and empower my teammates to do good work. ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ Yendo Jan 2023 – Present | Remote ### Software Engineer @ Yendo Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Remote Designed systems to manage highly complex onboarding business logic for an innovative credit card program, with more and more features added every quarter such as auto loan refinancing and progressively more fine-tunable underwriting criteria. Wrote and maintained payment systems to ensure a high degree of reliability, auditability, and regulatory compliance. Bootstrapped or evangelized many important operational and DX foundations such as: * request tracing and logging utilities * self-service alerts * designed our internal framework to let developers create services on Lambda behind SQS, API Gateway, SNS, etc while getting uniformly good observability and error handling automatically * database migration tooling * improve adherence to clean architecture * feature flagging to allow more frequent deployments Pushed for streamlining access to agentic coding tools to ship faster: * engaged management for budgetary support for AI coding tools * developed agent orchestration tooling in-house * led working sessions to discuss how we can leverage AI in our development processes ### Software Engineer @ Maestro Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Los Angeles, California, United States Tech lead on an upcoming interactive, customer-facing product featuring WebRTC and realtime compositing + streaming. Evolved it from a POC to a scalable product deployed on GCP as the main backend engineer. Made prototypes for a dynamic video compositor in C++ based on a few different AV/graphics stacks. Languages: C++, Go, TypeScript Technologies: Kubernetes, FFmpeg, SDL2, WebRTC, React ### Software Engineer @ The Aerospace Corporation Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | El Segundo, California Provided software engineering support to DoD projects, especially software assurance of C/C++ flight software and ground systems. Developed many processes and tools to lower the cost and learning curve of auditing and comparing codebase versions for architectural change assessments. Led teams of SMEs using this approach to get meaningful analysis of software project quality trends over many sprints. My department used a programmable static analyzer to hunt for software vulnerabilities. I Improved the results of static analysis tasks by implementing more sophisticated static analysis passes. Lowered the risk and cost of implementing new static analysis passes by modernizing the codebase with automatic builds, unit and functional tests, and more expressive API extensions. Software development of internal web applications in Python and PHP. ### FeedDev Engineer @ Feedonomics Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Woodland Hills Wrote concurrent web scrapers using PHP, PhantomJS, and Python+Selenium. Developed FeedTelligence, an n-gram analytical tool that integrates with the Feedonomics platform to improve your SEO with feedback from what real users are searching for. Wrote several PHP-based microservices and webhooks to extend the capabilities of the Feedonomics platform. Evangelized safer and more modern PHP dev practices. Consolidated common crawl tasks by writing a reusable/analyst-controllable crawl script, reducing dev costs. ### FeedDev Intern @ Feedonomics Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Woodland Hills Worked on the development team at Feedonomics as an interning PHP developer before transitioning to a full-time role in the company. ### Pianist @ Fountain Gardens Guest Home Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | 16803 Maple St, Fountain Valley, CA 92708 I performed for the residents of an assisted living home biweekly on Mondays. ### Piano Teacher @ Self Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 | Newport Beach Piano teacher for students of a wide variety of ages and skill levels. Emphasis on proper technique and functional reading ability for beginner students. Emphasis on useful, applied music theory and ear training for intermediate to advanced students. Jazz lessons focused on building ability to follow lead sheet chord changes, then applying jazz harmony/techniques during improvisation for solo/accompaniment performance. ### Bookseller @ Barnes & Noble, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Fashion Island Stock organization, customer service, upselling, and cashiering. ### Marketing Intern @ Audionamix Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 Assisted head of marketing and business development with marketing strategies and execution. Assisted production supervisor with database and data asset organization, clerical work, research. ### Assistant Teacher @ Susan Parr's Piano Studio Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 Taught music theory and sight reading to children between 4 and 16 years of age at many levels of proficiency. ## Education ### Master of Science in Computer Science Georgia Institute of Technology Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 ### Bachelor’s Degree in Music History UCLA Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Coursework in Computer Programming in Computer and Information Sciences, General Orange Coast College Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/devingunay --- Source: https://flows.cv/devingunay JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/devingunay/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22