# Michael Y.

> Software Engineer at Google

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/michaely

https://miyu.github.io/resume/

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer (Graphics, XR Prototyping) @ Google
Jan 2021 – Present | Mountain View, California, United States
Low-Level Graphics, HW Prototyping, XR UX, Rendering, AI HCI

### Software Engineer (VR Product R&D) @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Menlo Park, CA
Building the Metaverse. Graphics, Gameplay, and Internal Tools.

### Software Engineer @ Ghostly Bear Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018
Early R&D design + prototyping in C++/Unreal and C#/Unity. Mesh stitching, proc gen, social, AI.

### Software Engineering Intern @ Riot Games
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Santa Monica
- Unified HR services into Java & Flask-based API with React-Redux frontend.
- Automated Slack notifications for design document CMS using Postgres & AWS S3/ECS/SQS/SNS.
- Uncovered and visualized data insights for engineering keynote, leveraging JS, Python, and C++ to analyze helpdesk KPIs, game engine determinism, hiring pipeline optimization, and org growth.
- Prototyped physics, flocking, & gameplay for interdisciplinary hackathon project with C#/Unity.

### Software Engineer on Mixer (Beam Acquisition) @ Microsoft
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Redmond
- Replaced site auth w/ Microsoft SSO, refactoring legacy debt & shipping to Win10 + XB1 bug-free.
- Ported C# crypto RPC library to TypeScript enabling RESTful calls from Node to Xbox services.
- Improved service reliability by batching Go video service metrics to Grafana viz via InfluxDB.
- Dockerization, localization, tech support hooks, and code-based device linking with Redis.

### Software Engineer (Acquired by Microsoft) @ Beam Interactive, Inc
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Seattle, WA
- Refactored legacy auth to support hybrid role-based/resource-based access control in Node.
- Built billing, account management, and social features w/ Angular for competitor feature parity.
- Bootstrapped maintainability/service stability efforts ensuring reliable post-acquisition growth.

### Software Engineering Intern on Antivirus @ CrowdStrike
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Seattle, WA
- Built AV from scratch, developing feature extractors for ML-based malware classification in C++.
- Engineered IPC module for I/O from KM antivirus driver to UM scanner daemon in C.
- Created TDD framework for virtualization-based kernel-user software testing using C and C#.

### Software Engineer @ Some Random Startups and Teams
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Tackled online education, matchmaking for individuals with PTSD/Depression/Social-Anxiety, and automated online gaming tourneys

### Software Engineering Intern @ Riot Games
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Santa Monica, California
- Deployed critical matchmaker fix in week 1 after binary-searching code history to find root cause.
- Slashed match desertion rates by revamping legacy social system after refactor to microservice.
- Improved service uptime + team productivity by automating service health monitoring with Ruby.
- Led intern hackathon project building AI-powered team drafting w/ Node-based client/server.

### Software Engineer at AzubuTV @ AZUBU
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Greater Los Angeles Area
- Deployed workarounds to Azubu's critical post-launch scalability issues. Administered Leaguepedia's MediaWiki deployments.
- Rebuilt Azubu's livestream chat UI, developed internal tooling/dashboards, and embedded live game scoreboard under streams.

### Technical Co-lead @ Leaguepedia
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
- Supported typhoon relief tournament by embedding sponsor logos into game world and building donation-tracker.
- Led internal project development, built sales decks, and helped pitch Leaguepedia's organizational merger with Azubu alongside my side-project.


## Education
### Master's degree in Computer Engineering
University of Washington

### B.S. Computer Engineering
University of Washington

### The Harker School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/miyu94
- Website: https://github.com/miyu

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Source: https://flows.cv/michaely
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/michaely/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-01