Summary
Yitong Wu is a software engineer with 10 years of experience, currently building iOS experiences on Instagram’s Music & Audio team after multi-year engineering roles across Facebook’s messaging, groups, and live-audio products. With an MS in Computer Science from NYU Courant and a BS from UC Irvine, Yitong blends mobile engineering, full-stack product work, and research-driven prototyping—from Unity game development to performance optimizations in C++ for developer tooling. Known for shipping user-facing features at scale and improving developer workflows, they’ve contributed to Marketplace, Rooms, and live-audio initiatives that reached large communities. Based in Menlo Park, they pair industry-scale product execution with a curiosity for applied research and a playful commitment to gaming culture as an “unranked” League of Legends player.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at New York University
University of California, Irvine
English, Chinese, Chinese, Japanese