Elissa Tong
Senior Software Engineer at Twitch
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolElissa Tong is a senior software engineer and engineering manager with 12+ years building cross-platform gaming and video client products, from AAA game engines to living-room apps on consoles and smart TVs. At Twitch she scaled and led teams that shipped client apps and a Core Video SDK across PS4/PS5, Xbox, Android TV, Apple TV and streaming boxes, and built a Core Tech/Core DevOps split to accelerate release cadence and developer productivity. Her background spans hands-on C++ and Unity development, DevOps/CI pipelines, SDK design, and product-facing partnerships with platform vendors like Sony, Microsoft and Google. Earlier roles include technical evangelism at Microsoft in China and CTO of a mobile educational games startup, giving her deep experience in localization, tools, and startup-to-enterprise collaboration. Known for growing small teams into high-performing groups, she pairs a game-dev roots in graphics/AI/physics with pragmatic infrastructure and release automation expertise.
12 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelors of Science, Computing Science Major, Mathematics Minor, Co-operative Education Designation, Bachelors of Science, Computing Science Major, Mathematics Minor, Co-operative Education Designation at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese, French
Github Skills (5)
azure1
csharp1
mobile-services1
cross-platform1
unity3d1
Github contributions (5)
elissatong/elissastechcolumn
Jun 2015 - Mar 2023
Contributions:12 pushes, 1 branch in 7 years 10 months
elissatong/UnityPortingLabs
Apr 2014 - Oct 2014
Contributions:31 commits in 5 months
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