Andy Fong
Principal Software Engineer at solo.io
Sanford, Florida, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Fong is a Principal Software Engineer with over two decades of experience building high-performance systems, currently working at solo.io after a long tenure at StackPath. He specializes in large-scale distributed systems, CDN and Layer 7 load balancing, firmware and device driver development, and more recently edge compute and Kubernetes operators using Go, Pulumi, and TypeScript. Andy has a proven track record troubleshooting production stability and performance at scale and designing fast configuration management for latency-sensitive networks. He led the Intelligent Transportation System team at TransCore and began his career developing avionics-grade video card firmware, giving him deep systems and hardware-adjacent expertise. Based in Sanford, Florida, he pairs hands-on engineering with architectural leadership and a pragmatic focus on operational reliability. His background suggests a rare blend of low-level systems craftsmanship and modern cloud-native infrastructure skills.
2 years of coding experience
25 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Science in Computer Engineering at University of Florida
Github Skills (30)
api-management10
kubernetes10
envoyproxy10
api10
gateway10
api-gateway10
golang10
serverless10
kong10
microservices10
cloud-native10
gloo10
grpc10
high-performance8
checker8
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
andy-fong/kgateway
Oct 2024 - Mar 2025
The Feature-rich, Kubernetes-native, Next-Generation API Gateway Built on Envoy
Contributions:6 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
andy-fong/envoy-changelogs
Feb 2025 - Feb 2025
Contributions:3 pushes in 3 days
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