Oliver Dong
San Jose,USA
Summary
Software Engineer at TikTok with one year of experience, with outstanding performance. Working on the Brand Safety service at Global Monetization - Brand Ads team.
Overview
3
3
years of professional experience
Work History
Software Engineer
TikTok
San Jose, CA
05.2025 - Current
- Integrated TikTok's Brand Safety Tagging alongside the model recall pipeline for CapCut and Lemon8 to facilitate billion-level video item data brand safety tagging
- Architected and implemented TikTok's Brand Safety Exclusion List system—a full-stack solution empowering Fortune 500 advertisers to enforce granular content controls on TikTok ads delivery system
Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania - PAL Group
Philadelphia, PA
01.2024 - 05.2025
- Incorporate foundational Vision model and cutting-edge Video Object Segmentation model to target and identify object features for Object-Centric Representation in vision-based robotics learning
- Develop a GPT/Gemini-based agent working on iteratively finetuning foundational vision model parameters
Software Engineer Summer Internship
TikTok
San Jose, CA
05.2024 - 08.2024
- Engineered high-reliability Apache Kafka pipelines processing over a billion daily video safety labeling requests, with comprehensive video-view-based checking logic and sub-100 ms latency performance.
- Expanded the integration service of deep learning-based UGC video safety classification and TikTok's ad delivery system, enabling brand advertising expansion to 17+ new markets, and increasing eligible ad inventory by 15%.
Undergraduate Researcher
Vanderbilt MASI Lab
Nashville, TN
01.2022 - 12.2022
- Pioneered serverless edge computing implementation for browser-based deployment of deep learning models in lung CT segmentation. Established proof of concept for a novel, real-life clinical deployment pathway of deep learning models.
- Work won Best Student Paper Award Finalist in the SPIE Medical Imaging 2023 Conference
Education
MSE - Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia05.2025
BA - Computer Science, Mathematics (Applied Track)
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN12.2022
Skills
- C
- Java
- Python
- Go
- JavaScript
- SQL
- C
- R
- MATLAB
- CSS3
- React
- Nodejs
- Spring Boot
- REST APIs
- Redis
- Abase
- MongoDB
- AWS
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- PyTorch
- ONNX
- MONAI
- TensorFlow
- CI/CD
- Agile Development
Timeline
Software Engineer
TikTok
05.2025 - Current
Software Engineer Summer Internship
TikTok
05.2024 - 08.2024
Research Assistant
University of Pennsylvania - PAL Group
01.2024 - 05.2025
Undergraduate Researcher
Vanderbilt MASI Lab
01.2022 - 12.2022
MSE - Computer and Information Science
University of Pennsylvania
BA - Computer Science, Mathematics (Applied Track)
Vanderbilt University
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