Software Engineer

2025 — NowFanaticsSenior Software Engineer

2025 — Now

Sunnyvale, California, United States

2023 — 2025FanaticsSoftware Engineer

2023 — 2025

San Francisco Bay Area

2021 — 2023TwilioSoftware Engineer

2021 — 2023

San Francisco, California, United States

Operate company’s self-hosted Kafka data cluster.

Write RESTful APIs to interact with data platform systems.

Design and Implement a generic Kafka Connect ecosystem web application, featuring extensible and reusable modules, with Java as backend and React UI as frontend.

Have experience with infrastructure automation.

Familiar with agile scrum (Jira) and source control (Git)

2018 — 2019University of Illinois at Urbana-ChampaignStudent Researcher

2018 — 2019

Champaign, Illinois, United States

Publication:

Narang, K., Song, Y., Schwing, A. et al. FuseRec: fusing user and item homophily modeling with temporal recommender systems. Data Min Knowl Disc 35, 837–862 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10618-021-00738-8

2017 — 2017XiaohongshuSoftware Engineer Intern

2017 — 2017

Shanghai, China

Implement a Python library for LinkedIn Azkaban’s task management tool, features including job uploading, scheduling and execution.

Add features for a single-sign-on system: password reset, account lockdown, audit log, admin management module.

Education

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Bachelor of Science - BS

University of Southern California

Experience+

Education

Bachelor of Science - BS

Master's degree