# Yitong Song

> Senior Software Engineer

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

Software Engineer

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Fanatics
Jan 2025 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Fanatics
Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ Twilio
Jan 2021 – Jan 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)

### Student Researcher @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2018 – Jan 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

### Software Engineer Intern @ Xiaohongshu
Jan 2017 – Jan 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.

### Course Assistant @ University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Champaign, Illinois, United States
Hold discussion sessions and office hours


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

### Master's degree in Computer Science
University of Southern California


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/yitong-song-6422501a1

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Last updated: 2026-03-31