Full Stack Developer

Contact

+1 (347) 251 1338

https://lillichoung.com

New York City

Experience

Founding Engineer - Shibuya

• Led development at VC-backed seed stage startup in entertainment tech. Prototypes include:
  • Interactive video player with branching choices
  • AI game-master character (built on Claude API)
  • AI Storyboard tool (ChatGPT + ElevenLabs + SDXL)
  • Shopify, Stripe integrations

February ‘23 - January ‘25

Sr. Software Engineer - Meta

• Team technical lead on Messenger Graph. Ensured compliance in contact recommendation signals by restricting data to approved sources while maintaining baseline app growth. This mitigated regulatory risk and tens of millions in potential fines.
• Partnered with designers and research scientists to implement full stack experiments on contact and chat content search
• Additionally prototyped internal 0-1 efforts like Collab app

August ‘17 - February ‘23

Education

Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science B.S. CS, Minor in ML

Software & tools

Projects

AI Visual Novel Engine Uses prompt engineering and RAG to morph a user-defined story around reader interactions in a React/Node + Claude based app 2025

References

References can be provided upon request.