Chris Gong
Senior AI Engineer at Aura
New York City Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolChris Gong is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building scalable backend systems and game-related tooling, currently developing an AI agent assistant for Unreal Engine. Based in the New York City area, he brings production experience from Bloomberg and healthcare-focused data streaming and search systems at Optum, working with Java, Kafka, Spark, Scala, Spring Boot, and Elasticsearch. His background blends systems engineering with hands-on maker and hardware projects from Rutgers, where he managed a makerspace and built Arduino/XBee wearable game prototypes, reflecting a practical comfort with both software and physical computing. Chris has also shipped full-stack and voice-driven prototypes using React, Node.js, AWS Lambda, and Dialogflow, showing a knack for rapid iteration across platforms. He’s particularly interested in multiplayer solutions in games, combining backend expertise with gameplay tooling to bridge server-scale concerns and developer-facing UX.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Mountain Lakes High SchoolBachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Rutgers University-New Brunswick
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Github Skills (80)
unreal-engine-410
windows10
amazon-api-gateway10
unreal10
client-server10
cpp10
game-development10
backend10
linux10
dynamodb10
csharp10
replication10
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amazon-web-services10
networking10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
chris-gong/knowledge-representation
Oct 2018 - Dec 2018
Small Unity project showcasing AI responding to changes in the game world
Contributions:1 release, 75 commits, 2 PRs in 2 months
aiunityunity3dknowledge-representationartificial-intelligence
chris-gong/flopnite-ue4
Dec 2018 - Sep 2021
An attempt at remaking the popular battle royale game, Fortnite, using Unreal Engine 4 and Amazon GameLift
Contributions:17 releases, 238 commits, 22 PRs in 2 years 9 months
amazon-gameliftunreal-engine-4fortnitecppunreal-engine
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