Ackerley Tng
Software Engineer at Google
Bellevue, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAckerley Tng is a software engineer with 11 years of experience building secure, scalable systems across cloud and infrastructure domains, currently contributing to Google Cloud Security & Privacy on Confidential VM. He has led teams and projects at CSIT that replaced manual processes and introduced SSO and API-driven decompositions, saving hundreds of hours and unifying enterprise permissions. At Amazon he helped operate a high-availability payroll product used by over a million hourly employees, and he brings practical full-stack skills in Python, JavaScript, Rust, and AWS. An advocate for elegant code and language design—Clojure is a noted favorite—he contributes to notable open-source projects such as the cross-platform Rust coreutils, improving utilities like wc and du to match GNU behavior and robust glob handling. His background in ECE from Cornell and hands-on security work on Linux kernel and userspace testing inform a pragmatic, correctness-first approach to engineering. Colleagues value him for balancing strong implementation craft with thoughtful mentorship and tooling that reduces repetitive work.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at Cornell UniversityGCE 'A' Level Concentration in Physics Chemistry Mathematics and Economics, GCE 'A' Level Concentration in Physics Chemistry Mathematics and Economics at Raffles Institution
English, Chinese, Japanese
Github Skills (6)
command-line-tool10
rust10
gnu-coreutils10
cross-platform9
busybox8
regex8
Programming languages (20)
Github contributions (5)
uutils/coreutils
Mar 2022 - Jul 2022
Cross-platform Rust rewrite of the GNU coreutils
Role in this project:
Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:2 reviews, 7 commits, 5 PRs in 4 months
Contributions summary:Ackerley made several contributions to the `coreutils` project, specifically focusing on improving the `wc` (word count) utility. These changes included modifying how the number width is computed in `wc`, aligning its behavior with the GNU version and addressing potential misalignment issues. Furthermore, the user refactored and improved `du` (disk usage) utility, updating its implementation for glob pattern matching, including complex exclusion patterns and leveraging the `parse_glob` module, demonstrating a solid understanding of the codebase. The contributions involved code modifications to align behavior and improve utility functionality.
command-line-toolrustlinuxgnucoreutils
ackerleytng/.emacs.d
Jul 2018 - Apr 2023
Contributions:53 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 10 months
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