Heidi Tong
Software Developer at Under the GUI Academy Inc.
Canada
Summary
👤
Senior🎓
Top SchoolHeidi Tong is a Canada-based software developer pursuing a double major in Computing Science and Communication at Simon Fraser University, bringing nine years of experience across internships and full-time roles. She currently works as a Software Developer at Safe Software and as a Coding Instructor at Under the GUI Academy, with prior contributions to open-source projects at D-Wave Systems as a Software Developer and Junior Software Developer. In the D-Wave Ocean SDK, she focused on test automation—adding a smoke test for the dwave-preprocessing package, strengthening the test suite, and updating CI to leverage the ocean orb. Her technical toolkit includes Python, Cython, and C++, with hands-on work in feature development, bug fixes, code reviews, and documentation, complemented by cross-functional collaboration and regular feature demos. Outside of coding, Heidi has experience as a freelance graphic designer and a private piano teacher, underscoring her communication, design thinking, and ability to translate complex ideas into clear, user-facing outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
High School, Challenge Program, High School, Challenge Program at Eric Hamber Secondary SchoolBachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science, Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Computer Science at Simon Fraser University
English, Chinese, Chinese
Github Skills (7)
python10
testing10
unittests9
unittesting9
unittest9
quantum-computing9
ci-cd8
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
dwavesystems/dwave-ocean-sdk
May 2021 - Dec 2021
Installer for D-Wave's Ocean tools
Role in this project:
QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:1 release, 11 reviews, 27 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Heidi focused on enhancing the test suite for the `dwave-ocean-sdk` project. Their contributions included adding a smoke test for the `dwave-preprocessing` package and integrating it into the existing test framework. They also updated and added tests and made modifications to the CI configuration file to leverage the 'ocean orb'. In addition, the user updated test suite components, demonstrating a dedication to improving the quality and coverage of the tests within the SDK.
quantum-computingoceand-waveinstallerwave
dwave-examples/graph-coloring
Nov 2020 - Jan 2022
A demo of graph coloring using Leap's hybrid constrained quadratic model (CQM) solver.
Contributions:4 reviews, 19 commits, 14 PRs in 1 year 2 months
hybrid-solutionsolverdiscretegraphshybrid
Find and Hire Top DevelopersWe’ve analyzed the programming source code of over 60 million software developers on GitHub and scored them by 50,000 skills. Sign-up on Prog,AI to search for software developers.