Former Google & Facebook Software Engineer  -  Software Engineering Expert  -  Founder of World-Class Development Agency

As a Senior Software Engineer at Rivian, I've had a hand in many of the initiatives released to the
consumer in the past years.

My main accomplishment:
- Launched resilient order and preorder system still used today using Reactjs on the frontend and Node with GraphQL on the backend. The services were deployed on AWS in Kubernetes clusters.
- Architected and implemented a vehicle photo generator for all Rivian's R1S and R1T photos in Vehicle
Studio, Configurator, Account, Mobile app, and more. We used a distributed system using Kubernetes jobs and AWS SQS with a Typescript function in order to generate hundreds of thousands of images in a short amount of time.
- Architected and implemented an on-demand vehicle photo generator serving millions of vehicle photos
every day
- Architected and implemented a cross-team GraphQL backend layer used by multiple teams.
- Established team's operating excellence with a 99.9% uptime on all of our services.

My day-to-day activities include:
- designing, extending and reviewing software architecture
- collaborating with the product team and UI/UX designers to turn product needs into technical action
items.
- mentoring engineer to help them grow on a technical level
- contributing to different codebases and features

Rivian

Senior Software Engineer

I led the team to grow from 400k DAU to 1.2MM DAU in the matter of months. This included many architectural reviews and changes, code reviews, creating development processes and most importantly helping the team implement features by providing accurate specs and assigning fair (but aggressive) timelines and due dates.

- Created C++ and C Node Addons
- Led Enterprise Product
- Created In-Game Overlays
- The app was built with Electron and React (Typescript) with many different microservices in the backend written in Python, Node (Typescript) and C++

Blitz

Interim Director of Engineering

I develop Windows 10, Chromebook, and web applications using React/Redux for frontend development and Scala and Nodejs for backend development. We migrated to the latest version of React and used functional components and custom hooks.

My key accomplishments include:

■ I launched first Windows 10 and Chromebook apps for robots.
■ I was appointed lead of app analytics by senior management.
■ I grew app usage to 250K active devices monthly and 1M user sessions a month. 
■ I containerized multiple services and migrated to AWS ECS.

Wonder Workshop

At this time, I built the technical team from the ground-up, implementing an Agile dev flow and best practices. I also platformized suite of products into microservices to enable reuse of plugins across all sites. My key accomplishments include:

■ I built multiple backend services still operating as the basis of the reviews platform.
■ I optimized page load speed by 30% by developing a custom advertisement loading system.

Android Authority

During this period, I assisted with Google’s DoubleClick and Toontastic projects, gathering requirements and developing custom solutions. I also adhered to strict coding standards and reviews. My key accomplishments include:

■ I built multiple marketing landing pages, creating thousands of dollars in revenue for DoubleClick.
■ I integrated web components in Toontastic before mainstream use.

Google

Senior Frontend Developer

In this position, I built the internet.org initiative from the ground up, originally with React but eventually migrating to a CMS. I also localized the site to 11 different languages. My key accomplishments include:

■ I optimized site for compatibility with the lowest end devices and flip phones.
■ I improved page load speed by 50%. 
■ I achieved 1M page views daily.

Facebook

For this organization, I created custom trading algorithms for corporate clients. I also developed generic trading scripts for bi-monthly OEM releases.

Gaoqing Y.