Anthony Wong
Engineering Manager at Canonical
Tokyo, Japan
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Top SchoolAnthony Wong is an experienced engineering manager with 17 years working at the intersection of Linux kernel development, hardware enablement and project leadership, currently leading Canonical’s Kernel Hardware Enablement Team across Asia, Europe and the US. He specializes in diagnosing and backporting complex kernel and near-kernel issues to keep Ubuntu shipping reliably on OEM desktops, laptops, servers and an expanding set of IoT and embedded ARM platforms. His background combines deep hands-on systems engineering (C, Linux, device enablement, new silicon bring-up) with proven program and remote team management for partners such as Dell, Lenovo, HP and major semiconductor vendors. Prior roles in preload projects, forensics tooling and large-scale Java/PHP web systems give him rare cross-domain fluency from low-level kernel work to user-facing software. He is comfortable operating across time zones and cultures, routinely coordinating multi-stakeholder launches and bespoke OEM integrations. Colleagues value his ability to translate ambiguous hardware requirements into stable, production-ready Ubuntu kernels and enablement features.
17 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MIT Big Data and Social AnalyticsDeveloping with Embedded Linux Training, Developing with Embedded Linux Training at DoulosThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Chinese, Chinese, English, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (61)
ubuntu10
command-line-tool10
operating-system10
imap9
ripgrep9
regex9
grep9
linux9
mail-client9
windows9
command-line9
cli9
rust9
irc9
audio8
Programming languages (13)
Github contributions (5)
anthonywong/dash-snap
Jul 2016 - Oct 2022
Contributions:8 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 4 months
anthonywong/shadowsocks-snap
Aug 2017 - May 2022
Contributions:9 commits, 19 pushes, 2 branches in 4 years 10 months
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