# Wooseok (Michael) Yi > Software Engineer at Meta Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/wooseok ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2021 – Present | Menlo Park, California, United States ### Software Engineer @ Quora Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Mountain View, California, United States Software Engineer on Scale Product Team • Led project workstreams on: notifications (scaled back-end abstraction via queues), follow suggestions (ran countless A/B experiments with flows & triggers) and new user experience (reduced friction, increased retention) • Built an email sending abstraction for sending one-off emails to support loads of 300m+ sends in short timeframes with batch processing while ensuring exact-once semantics, idempotency (Python, Redis, HBase, Kafka, Spark) • Implemented browser push notifications to increase user engagement (Python, React, GraphQL) • Reduced pages by 75% as team on-call lead via improving system reliability, driving cross-functional processes ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, Washington, United States Software Engineering Intern on Product Platform Team: Messenger Assistant • Built new test infrastructure for e2e system health for voice assistant to improve alerting and debugging (Python) • Wrote multithreaded load testing that parses test results, validates accuracy, and logs to databases (Python, ODS) • Developed a low-latency alerting system to check test infra failures for on-call engineers (Scuba, Anomaly) ### Software Engineering Intern @ Quora Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Mountain View, California, United States Software Engineering Intern on Distribution Product Team • Developed and launched a new notification targeting search-intent users that increases engagement (Python) • Created a scalable, reliable pipeline for the notification with checkpointing, monitoring (Python, Redis, HBase) ### Software Engineering Intern @ Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence (AI2) Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Seattle, WA Semantic Scholar is a search engine that leverages AI expertise to help researchers find the most relevant information efficiently. This new service for scientific literature search and discovery focuses on semantics and textual understanding. It utilizes methods from data mining, natural-language processing, and computer vision to create powerful new search and discovery experiences. - Developed and launched (under experimentation) a trending feed of popular research papers on the homepage of Semantic Scholar - Improved social media scraper, increasing yield of social content referencing research papers by 510% (Python, AWS RDS & S3) - Designed and created trending ranking algorithm and integrated it into data pipeline (Scala, Spark, Elasticsearch) - Implemented the front-end for the trending feed on the homepage of Semantic Scholar (React, HTML/LESS) ### Software Engineering Intern @ Facebook Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Menlo Park, CA Facebook is a social networking platform that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues. The Growth team focuses on figuring out how to scale Facebook to over 2 billion monthly active users. - Developing new contextual ways for user confirmation through banners, variable timing (PHP – Hack) - Testing countless flows and timings of the new user experience to increase retention (PHP – Hack) - Implementing confirmation by voice call for retry attempts, with spam-limitation (PHP, JS, HTML/CSS) - Analyzing data extensively for all A/B tests, to make shipping/hold-out/iteration decisions ### Undergraduate Researcher @ Ubiquitous Computing Lab at the University of Washington Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater Seattle Area The Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp) research lab, led by Professor Shwetak Patel, focuses on many areas of ubiquitous computing including novel user interface technology, energy sensing, low-power sensing, health sensing, and activity recognition by applying expertise in sensing, signal processing, embedded systems, circuits, and human-computer interaction. - Researched and prototyped new locomotion techniques and effects integrated with eye-tracking software in virtual reality (C#, Unity) - Designed user studies to test applicability and efficiency of moving in virtual reality with locomotion assistance from eye-tracking data ### Software Engineering Intern @ Microsoft Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Redmond, WA Power BI for Office 365 is Microsoft's cloud-based business intelligence (BI) solution that works from within Excel and Office 365 to analyze and visualize data in a self-service way. This cloud service provides non-technical business users with tools for aggregating, analyzing, visualizing, and sharing data. -Shipped features to over 200,000 monthly users of Power BI -Developed option to comment and annotate on visualizations to introduce collaboration (C#, SQL) -Integrated weekly notifications into SaaS application via OneRM to show updates to product -Designed and developed 3 touchpoints for “What's New” in the desktop application (C#, TypeScript) -Created and published a Power BI Olympics Report to demonstrate custom visuals (DAX) ### Co-President @ Hugs for Ghana Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Hugs for Ghana is an entirely student-run, 501c(3) non-profit organization dedicated to hand-delivering material and monetary donations to underprivileged children in schools, hospitals, and orphanages. - Collected over $10000 worth of material and monetary donations in just one year - Managed and developed the website using HTML programming - Led 20 student leaders in organizing a cultural fundraiser, soccer tournament, school-supply drive, and more ### Electrical Engineering Intern @ Boeing Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Mukilteo, WA Boeing is the world's largest aerospace company and leading manufacturer of commercial jetliners and defense, space and security systems. - Tested and documented full functionality of fuel-moving software (Body Tank Controller, Fuel Quantity Indication System) using TCL programming - Updated all testing procedures for the Fuel Tanks Program using VBA programming - Gained experience learning engineering protocols for all testing phases ## Education ### Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science University of Washington Jan 2016 – Jan 2019 ### Kamiak High School Jan 2012 – Jan 2016 ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/wooseokyi --- Source: https://flows.cv/wooseok JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/wooseok/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22