Ying Gooi
Senior Engineer at DigitalOcean
West Des Moines, Iowa, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYing Gooi is a senior engineer with nine years of software experience and seven years focused on scaling distributed cloud infrastructure at DigitalOcean. She blends hands-on full-stack JavaScript craftsmanship—evident in personal projects like waveflower.org—with production-grade work on storage IaaS and cloud platforms. Rooted in an actuarial-trained, analytical background and formal software engineering study at Launch School, she approaches reliability and performance with a data-minded rigor. Based in West Des Moines, Iowa, Ying is curious about newer tech like Strudel and prefers modern CSS color systems such as oklch(), hinting at a designer sensibility alongside systems expertise.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Actuarial Science, Bachelor of Science in Business Administration Actuarial Science at Drake UniversitySoftware Engineering & Full-stack Web Development, Software Engineering & Full-stack Web Development at Launch School
Chinese, English, Malay
Github Skills (39)
omdb-api10
minecraft10
command-line-interface9
digitalocean-api9
go-api9
currency-exchange9
api9
command-line-tool8
command-line8
infrastructure8
digitalocean8
snap8
faraday8
api-client8
golang7
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
YingCGooi/Launch-School-101
Mar 2017 - Aug 2018
Contributions:136 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
YingCGooi/omdb-tracker
Feb 2019 - Mar 2019
A movie tracker that allows a user to save movies as favorites. When saving, the user can comment and rate on the movie. App is integrated with OMDb API for movie title search.
Contributions:120 commits, 20 PRs, 40 pushes in 23 days
apireactmoviesmovie-trackerintegrated
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