Summary
Wenyu Ouyang is a backend software engineer based in California with 10 years of experience building scalable web and mobile systems using Java, Python, and Spring. Currently at TikTok after leading search engine development and mobile backend work at Michaels, he brings practical expertise in search, authentication, payments, and cloud deployments. His background in AI research and signal processing—working on health-monitoring and emotion-detection models using ECG/PPG, OpenSMILE, and OpenFace—gives him a strong data-driven perspective when architecting backend services. Comfortable across full-stack responsibilities, he has shipped production systems integrating payment SDKs, CDN/VoD services, and secure session management. Actively seeking new software engineer roles, he combines hands-on implementation with empirical research experience that often informs product-focused engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Irvine