Alan Ton
Software Engineer at Citadel
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlan Ton is a software engineer with nine years of experience building and operating large-scale messaging infrastructure, most recently as a Production Engineer on Meta’s Messaging Infrastructure team and now at Citadel. He blends 70% hands-on coding with 30% operational leadership, driving reliability-first practices across cross-functional teams and leading mid-sized engineering groups to deliver urgent business priorities. His background includes progressive production-engineering roles at Facebook and internships at AWS and JPL, giving him a strong foundation in distributed systems, high-throughput services, and observability. Based in New York, he’s comfortable navigating the pressures of systems that handle over 100 billion messages per day and often pairs incident response with long-term platform improvements.
9 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Bachelor of Science (B.S.) at University of California, BerkeleyHigh School, High School at Walnut High School
English
Github Skills (5)
skeleton8
cpp6
javascript6
java6
data-structures4
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
alandgton/activism-mailbot
Jun 2020 - Jun 2020
Contributions:141 commits, 16 PRs, 121 pushes in 10 days
alandgton/alandgton.github.io
Jan 2019 - Jun 2020
Contributions:77 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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