Emmett Young
Staff Software Engineer at TikTok
Singapore, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolEmmett Young is a Staff Software Engineer based in Singapore with 10 years of experience building reliable, high-throughput backend systems and shipping cross-regional products. At TikTok he was a founding engineer for the Sales Plan & Forecast initiative, bootstrapping microservices, instituting Hexagonal and CQRS architectures, and delivering MVPs across METAP and US regions within six-week cadences. He has a track record of improving developer experience and operational efficiency—introducing DI-based test fixtures, CI checkstyle, and cutting app startup time to save hundreds of engineering hours. Previously at Rakuten and Exist he led teams, mentored juniors, designed eventual-consistency integrations (Outbox/Kafka), and built test frameworks that dramatically sped up suites. Comfortable across Java/Spring, Kafka, Elasticsearch/ClickHouse and frontend stacks, he blends hands-on implementation with architectural stewardship. Colleagues describe him as a pragmatic engineer who surfaces technical debt through regular retrospectives and drives measurable delivery improvements.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Engineering at De La Salle University
Github Skills (62)
spring10
java10
spring-boot10
dall-e10
testing9
chatgpt9
semantic-search9
groovy9
validation9
spock-framework9
generative-ai9
specification9
prompt-engineering9
azure9
gpt8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
mettyoung/my-resume
Apr 2019 - Jun 2023
Contributions:20 pushes, 3 branches in 4 years 2 months
mettyoung/japan-embassy-scraper
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:2573 pushes, 1 branch in 2 days
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