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Anson Goo

CS + FinTech @ Georgia Tech

I'm a Computer Science student at Georgia Tech, minoring in Financial Technology.My focus is product-driven engineering: understanding what people need, then building intuitive products.I care about removing friction and making tools that people actually want to reach for.

Professional

Work Experience

Tesla

San Francisco Bay Area

Summer 2026

Software Engineer Intern

Global Demand Planning Team

Tesla

Austin, TX

Sep 2025 - Present

Software Engineer Intern

Global Demand Planning Team

Fall 2025 & Spring 2026

Yahoo

New York, NY

June 2025 - August 2025

Software Engineer Intern

Yahoo Finance, Back-End Engineering Team

Designed and built an AI-powered database search platform with AWS Bedrock, Glue, Athena, and LangGraph; it allows natural language search on databases, recommends relevant tables / fields with a weighted scoring system, generates Athena SQL queries with 95% accuracy, and guides the users through query execution.

Georgia Tech OIT

Atlanta, GA

August 2023 - April 2025

Application Developer Intern

Robotic Process Automation Team

Implementing a Customer Relationship Management (CRM) platform with Microsoft Power Platform to receive and handle user requests from administrative teams.

Replaced a third-party software and achieved $420 monthly savings by developing a web CRM platform with Microsoft Power Apps
Designed the platform to receive and handle requests from administrative teams and automatically organize the submissions on Microsoft Lists
Optimized and debugged JavaScript and Power Fx code, reducing compiling errors by 45%
Improved task completion rate by 28% through frequent and critical communication with technical stakeholders

Yahoo

New York, NY

June 2024 - August 2024

Software Engineer Intern

Yahoo Finance, Back-End Engineering Team

Implemented Big Data pipelines that run daily to process user stock transaction records and convert it into query-able Hive tables. This allowed the analysis of user behavior and insight derivation.

Built Big Data pipelines to convert raw transaction records into queryable Hive tables, enabling analysis of 6M+ user stock data
Analyzed user behavior with SQL, proposing UI enhancements to boost engagement (e.g. add SELL button on BUY records)
Secured OAuth 2.0 migration approval from security teams by presenting cost-effective solutions with 30% cost reduction
Wrote 40+ unit tests in Scala ensuring high code maintainability, passing SonarQube code smell and quality gate checks
Work in AGILE sprints, presenting updates in weekly stand-ups, discussing blockers, and resolving merge conflicts on Git

Rocket Drones

Pensacola, FL

February 2024 - June 2024

Software Engineer Intern

Learning Management Systems (LMS) & Web Platform Development Team

[LMS Team] Worked on the groundworks of the new Learning Management System (LMS) to allow interactive learning for K-12 students. [Web Team] Worked on Rocket Drone's admin web portal to expand applicability and implement technical features while prioritizing user experience.

Designed and built a Learning Management System that educates K-12 students about drones with interactive modules
Achieved 50% improvement in code organization by componentizing 3 core features (navigation, quiz submission, grading)
Increased page load speed by 30% and offloaded 70% of client-side responsibilities by leveraging Next.js Server Actions
Refactored codebase to follow a modular structure, creating a reusable and sustainable pattern for future development
Transformed raw geographic data fetched from PostgreSQL into a custom map component built with React and Google Maps API that includes map markers with InfoWindows that contain unique URLs
Integrated PostgreSQL data retrieval with React's useEffect Hooks and callback functions, ensuring an efficient front-end that adapts to real-time data changes and applies dynamic component rendering

Maven Youth

New York, NY

July 2022 - August 2022

Application Developer Intern

Horizons App Team

Developed a mobile app prototype that educates foster parents and government officials on how to handle cases involving LGBTQ+ youth.

Led a 5-student research & app development, aiming to create a support system for LGBTQ+ youth in foster care
Used Figma to design and prototype a mobile application leveraging the user flow feature and graphic designing tools
Presented a working mobile app prototype to 30 LGBTQ+ allies in social services and the tech field via Zoom, gaining 90% approval in product viability
Acquired crucial idea-to-prototype skills that shape my current project planning and development style

Extracurricular

Featured Projects

GT Degree Roadmap

Next.js · React · TypeScript · Javascript · Tailwind CSS · Firebase Authentication · Firestore · Node.js · Python · Figma · Jira · GitHub Enterprise

Live News Reddit Post

A degree planning tool I founded under the Georgia Tech Student Government. I lead a team of 6, align with university stakeholders, and shipped a product now used by 1,200+ students with 200+ daily unique visitors during peak registration periods.

PreForget: Before You Forget

Swift · SwiftUI · CoreData · Objective-C · Google Gemini API

GitHub Live Reddit Post

A Mac menu bar task app I built from scratch (pre-AI) as a college freshman to help users with ADHD. Self-taught Swift/SwiftUI, published to the Mac App Store; 600+ downloads, two 5-star reviews, and 12k+ Reddit views.