Summary
Yitong Song is a Senior Software Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with 10 years of experience building full-stack systems and data platforms. She has designed and shipped Kafka-centric infrastructure and extensible connector tooling, paired with Java backends and React frontends, while operating self-hosted data clusters at scale. Her background spans fast-moving product environments from Twilio to Fanatics, plus applied research on temporal recommender systems from her time at UIUC, reflecting a blend of production engineering and academic rigor. Comfortable with infrastructure automation, RESTful APIs, and agile delivery, she brings a practical focus on reusable architecture and observability. An interesting thread through her career is translating research insights into production features—evidenced by a peer-reviewed publication on fusing homophily for recommender systems.
10 years of coding experience