Rui Gan
Software Engineer at TikTok
Milpitas, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRui Gan is a software engineer with 8 years of experience building high-volume, low-latency services across startups and tech giants. With a Master’s in Computer Science from UC Irvine, he has shipped scalable systems at PayPal (a GraphQL mid-tier serving over one million users) and improved onboarding throughput at Amazon through service migrations and production-grade testing. More recently he designed multi-tenant, serverless architectures on Azure that cut infrastructure costs by 80% and introduced integrated logging for end-to-end observability. Rui blends backend systems design with front-end experience (React/Redux) and a practical focus on reliability, monitoring, and developer productivity. He mentors engineers, leads code reviews and documentation efforts, and thrives in cross-functional teams that span firmware to product. Based in Milpitas, he brings a pragmatic, cost-conscious engineering mindset that surfaces in both architecture decisions and operational improvements.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering, Bachelor's degree Electrical Electronics and Communications Engineering at University of Electronic Science and Technology of ChinaUniversity of California, Irvine
Github Skills (4)
edtech7
open-source7
azure1
ansible1
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Roser1996/user-list-backend
May 2019 - Dec 2019
Contributions:3 commits, 2 PRs, 2 pushes in 7 months
Catalina218/juniorgolf
Sep 2020 - Jan 2023
Junior golf website
Contributions:1 review, 41 PRs, 44 pushes in 2 years 4 months
juniorgolf
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