Alton Fong
Software Development Manager at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAlton Fong is a Software Development Manager at AWS with a decade of experience building and leading teams that deliver cloud-native infrastructure and Kubernetes platforms. He previously led engineering for VMware’s Tanzu Kubernetes Grid Service and was the development lead for the PKS control plane, combining deep systems-level skills in C/C++ and Go with full-stack experience in Java, Python, and React. Comfortable across public clouds (AWS, Azure, GCP) and core platform pieces like Cluster API, CSI/CPI, and CI/CD, he marries hands-on contributions to projects like Cloud Foundry BOSH with people leadership of 10+ engineers. His background spans networking OS work at Aruba/HPE to large-scale distributed systems, which gives him a practical edge in operational reliability and automation. Based in California, he pairs CMU graduate-level engineering training with a knack for surfacing hard-to-see integration issues early in complex cloud deployments.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Computer Science at University of California, DavisMaster’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master’s Degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
bosh10
go10
deployment-automation10
cicd9
testing9
back-end-development9
databases8
database8
kubernetes-pods7
kubernetes7
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/bosh
Aug 2017 - Sep 2017
Cloud Foundry BOSH is an open source tool chain for release engineering, deployment and lifecycle management of large scale distributed services.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:11 commits, 7 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Alton's contributions primarily involve enhancements and fixes related to the BOSH director and its related tools. This includes improvements to the errand execution flow, resolving issues related to running errands with zero instances, and integrating with the database. They also worked on CI/CD pipeline modifications, including director recreation logic. The commits suggest a focus on the operational and integration aspects of the BOSH deployment process.
foundryboshpcfchainengineering
afong94/docs-pks
Apr 2018 - Feb 2019
Contributions:4 pushes, 3 branches in 9 months
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