# Donovan Y.

> Software Engineer at Twitch

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/donovany

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Twitch
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
Community Discovery Team

### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitch
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developed content moderation service for live streaming
Implemented features to allow customers to define third-party models for classification
Utilized AWS services (S3, SQS, Rekognition) to integrate moderation

### Software Engineer Intern @ Snap Inc.
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
Developer Tools Team
Maps Places Team

Expanded accountability features for company-wide developer tools. 
Created algorithm for determining user location based on limited info.
Utilized venue and map databases to inform algorithms.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Twitch
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California, United States
Implemented link cut model to simulate network failures.
Achieved N+2 redundancy for tiered-caching configuration.
Setup framework for testing shared risk resource groups in network.
Detected real-time network liability upon deployment.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Fiddler
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Palo Alto, California, United States
Optimized data ingestion for monitoring statistics.
Implemented RESTful API for Python Client.
Allowed for cleaner API usage for enterprise data science customers.

### Software Engineer Intern @ Microsoft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Redmond, WA
• Developed a blob mutator for fuzzing for discovering security bugs.
• Evaluated mutator to DNS, DHCP-server, and RDP-client targets.
• Applied learning techniques to optimize target-based performance.
• Improved code coverage by at least 5% for all targets.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Northrop Grumman
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Northridge, CA
• Created client application software to control test hardware remotely.
• Adapted design simulation software to function in embedded systems.
• Initiated development of a driver to interface with FPGA through PCIe.
• Utilized features of a SoC to implement a secure boot.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Caltech

### American Heritage School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/donovan-ye

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Source: https://flows.cv/donovany
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Last updated: 2026-03-29