# Yicong Gong

> Software Engineer at DoorDash

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

A passionate maker and fast learner, interested in both product idea and software implementation. A travel enthusiast wishing to use Tech to improve the way we experience life.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ DoorDash
Jan 2020 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Allume
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | Redwood City, California, United States
• Designed and built the new booking and membership BE system on top of legacy system in 3 months
• Product owner of the product category system, data feed, product update, search indexing
• Responsible for all DevOps works, including deployment (CI/CD), AWS management, Docker, etc.
• Built data infrastructure for personalization - aggregate behavior, quiz data and store in MongoDB
• Implemented new payment system, integrated with 3rd party payment and fraud detection providers
• Was a major contributor and later became project owner of automatic order placement

### Creator and Lead Developer @ MySmileApp (student startup project)
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Dublin, CA/ Atlanta, GA
https://github.com/YcMcGong/SmileyAppBackend
• Designed a micro-services based system deployed on AWS for attraction sharing App 
• Designed and developed the DynamoDB, S3, Elasticsearch system for multiple services   
• Built skeleton containers for Django and Flask with Nginx server using Docker 
• Developed web application service with RESTful API using Django
• Designed and heavily contributed to the Flask-based authenticate, relation and map services

### R&D Magic Lab Engineer Intern @ PlayStation
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016
•     Researched on bringing physical drones into mixed reality gaming experience 
•     Utilized vision tracking system for indoor drone tracking and control 
•     Built drone control system server using C# and C++ for game consoles 
•     Created APIs with UDP network protocol for Unity Game Engine 
•     Created a test game and implemented game AI to control physical drones 
•     Researched on Mixed Reality Applications for VR head-mounted display Co

### Co-founder and Team Leader @ Haka VR Jacket Project
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Atlanta
•	A project team focus on bringing virtual reality tactile feeling into clothing
•	Designed a control system to control multiple motor modules
•	Developing algorithm library to calculate the actions of each motor modules
•	Help writing C++ plugins to allow Unity connect to our hardware
•	Help developing motor module to bring more precise physical feedback
•	Organizing a Demo game development in Unity 3D with Oculus DK2 HMD

### Research Assistant @ University of Dayton Vision Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015
•	First-author conference paper was collected and presented by the 6th International Conference on Neural Computation Theory and Applications, ISBN: 978-989-758-054-3 
•	Research the interference between facial-based and thought-based brain signal
•	Identified and Analyzed EEG brain signals to control a 7DOF robotic arm

### Consulting Researcher @ Auroville Consulting
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Auroville, India
Worked as a consulting researcher in Auroville Consulting. Conducted a research to make improvement proposal on the current sustainable solar energy system in Auroville.


## Education
### Master’s Degree in Electrical and computer engineering
Georgia Institute of Technology
Jan 2015 – Jan 2017

### Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Engineering
University of Dayton
Jan 2012 – Jan 2015


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yicong-gong
- GitHub: https://github.com/YcMcGong
- Website: https://medium.com/@yiconggong
- Website: https://www.bookmeey.com/schedule/ivxpnlpZ3T3RoyePKknw

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Last updated: 2026-03-23