Nina Guo
Senior Software Engineer at CreativeLive
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolNina Guo is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with over a decade of experience building backend platforms and game systems. She has a strong foundation from MIT (M.Eng. and S.B. in EECS/CS) and a track record of shipping production features at scale, from core game systems and client-server integrations at Zynga to platform work at CreativeLive. Nina’s work blends performance optimization and cost reduction—she led optimizations that reduced Farmville 2 costs and improved game performance through smarter blob handling and service call reductions. Comfortable across languages and stacks, she has experience in systems research, web frameworks, and game development dating back to internships and research positions at MIT and Cisco. Known for mentoring colleagues, she also creates reusable, reskin-friendly code and has repeatedly taken ownership of cross-cutting architecture changes tied to major external API updates. An engineer who moves easily between research-grade thinking and pragmatic production delivery, she brings both rigorous technical training and a product-minded approach.
12 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Masters of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Masters of Engineering, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (20)
expressjs9
mongodb8
nodejs8
image8
modeling7
odm6
orm6
python6
asynchronous6
on-demand5
wordpress4
buster4
woocommerce3
swig2
css1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
nguo/wow-rand-mount-companion
Mar 2022 - May 2024
WoW Classic TBC addon for summoning random mount and companion
Contributions:1 review, 3 PRs, 16 pushes in 2 years 2 months
mountworld-of-warcraftgardenwow-classicaddon
creativelive/mkimage-server
Mar 2016 - Feb 2024
On-demand image resize server based on 'express'
Contributions:2 reviews, 11 PRs, 38 pushes in 8 years
imageon-demandexpressjsexpressdemand
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