Justin Shi
Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJustin Shi is a full‑stack software engineer with a decade of experience specializing in VR and social/creative game systems, having driven core features and infrastructure for Horizon Worlds at Meta. He blends systems-level technical design with front-end UX, leading migrations to React VR, optimizing world-load privacy logic to cut costs and speed loads, and shipping event and rewards systems end-to-end. A two-time intern manager and former teaching assistant, he pairs product execution with mentorship and a growing focus on game development education as he returns to graduate study at USC. Based in Los Angeles, he combines enterprise-scale engineering chops from Meta and Nasdaq with academic roots from Yale, and quietly favors projects that intersect media, interactive UI, and measurable performance gains.
10 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at University of Southern CaliforniaHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at The Stony Brook SchoolBachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Yale University
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
justinshi/square_scraper
Apr 2017 - Jul 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 3 months
justinmshi/unity-media-recorder
Oct 2020 - Nov 2020
Contributions:9 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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