Summary
Yanan Gong is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend systems and web applications, currently at Meta after six years leading engineering at HealthTap. Skilled in Ruby on Rails, C/C++, and J2EE, she blends hands-on systems programming with pragmatic web development to deliver reliable, scalable services. Her academic background in computational engineering and software engineering underpins a methodical approach to performance and architecture. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, she has transitioned from startup leadership to large-scale platform engineering, bringing cross-domain experience in healthcare tech and consumer-facing products. An engineer who moves comfortably between low-level code and high-level design, she often focuses on bridging performance needs with maintainable architectures.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
BE Software Engineering, BE Software Engineering at Wuhan University
MS Computational Engineering, MS Computational Engineering at The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
English, Chinese