# Sean Song

> Frontend Engineer at Tiktok

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/seansong

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ TikTok
Jan 2024 – Present | San Jose, California, United States
- TikTok WebApp (tiktok.com)
- Technical lead for major WebApp features: Tiktok Stories, FYP Redesign, Comments Panel, Immersive Player, Footnotes
- Technical FE lead for pages: FYP, Following, User, Search
- Built shared cross-client Component Design System

### Senior Software Engineer @ SiriusXM
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Oakland, California, United States
- Pandora in-market WebApp (pandora.com)
- SiriusXM 2023 rebrand WebApp (siriusxm.com)
- WebApp Core-Web team (web infra & CI/CD)
- ClientSDK (client app API systems architecture used by SXM WebApp, iOS, Android, TV, and Tesla clients)

### Software Engineer III @ Pandora
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | Oakland
Data Engineering for Ads Targeting pipelines on GCP, using BigQuery, Dataflow, Dataproc, Cloud Composer

### Software Engineer II @ Pandora
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Oakland, California, United States

### Backend Engineering Intern @ Pandora
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Oakland, California, United States

### Frontend Engineer @ CruzAssist
Jan 2019 – Jan 2022
Wrote cruzassist.netlify.com, used by UCSC students as a course catalog system that allows them to view and track courses.
SPA built in ReactJS with TypeScript and Redux.

### Frontend Engineer @ Peevers Consulting
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Santa Cruz
Rapid prototyped a web-based software demo of an upcoming music-oriented toy product.
Built frontend app with TypeScript/ReactJS and audio with Max/MSP.

### Head Engineer, Systems Programmer @ University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Santa Cruz
Developing a climate change awareness game sponsored by the NSF, working with Prof. Elizabeth Swensen and Dr. Nicole Feldl.
Designing a game in Unity/C# and built game system by implementing NumPy climate research models.

### ML Research Assistant @ Design Reasoning Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | UCSC
Constructing a neural network to transfer play experiences of indie itch.io games between each other and analysing their performance.
Network and web scraping tools built in Python/TensorFlow + Chrome Dev. Protocol.

### Producer, Technical Lead @ Where My Heart is
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | UCSC
Coordinated a team of 12 to develop a 3D Puzzle game featuring Constructive Solid Geometry and Realtime Mesh Manipulation.
Specialised in VFX and Post-Processing with HLSL in Unity/C# Engine.
Managed GitHub repository workflow and ingested game components to assemble weekly builds.

### VR Research Assistant @ Creative Coding Lab
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | UCSC
Collaborated with graduate researchers on Intergalactic-Vis project.
Transformed web app into UnityVR app using astronomical galaxy data.
Currently working with Dr. Angus Forbes on DataFX research project.

### Gameplay Programmer @ The Disaster Trail
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | DA-Games
Designed a game for Motivf and FEMA that raises awareness regarding disaster preparedness.
Published as minigame-based adventure title built with Unity/C#.

### Research Assistant @ Resonant Waves
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | UCSC
Constructed VR projections of sound-based artforms for Richard Grilloti’s DANM MFA Master’s Thesis.
Specialised in procedurally generating 3D models with Blender/Python.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Game and Interactive Media Design
University of California, Santa Cruz
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/sean-song-dev

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Last updated: 2026-03-22