Bailey Ling
Tech Fellow at Goldman Sachs
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolBailey Ling is a seasoned full-stack polyglot engineer and Tech Fellow at Goldman Sachs with 15 years of experience delivering distributed back-end services and graphically rich front-end applications. He has progressed from hands-on engineering roles to leadership positions—most recently heading Marquee Content Engineering—where he blends agile team leadership with deep technical ownership. Bailey is an active open-source contributor, notable for improvements to the popular Spacemacs distribution and practical enhancements to WPF tooling like SnoopWPF, reflecting a taste for developer experience and tooling. Based in New York, he balances high-stakes financial software delivery with a pragmatic, UX-aware engineering approach and brings a habit of refining existing systems rather than rewriting them from scratch. Outside work he’s a father and husband who still identifies as a committed “geek,” suggesting curiosity that drives continual learning and cross-stack fluency.
15 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering, Honours Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Software Engineering at Western University
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Github Skills (28)
diff-tool10
git10
difference10
xaml10
configuration-management10
vim10
unified-diffs10
emacs10
configuration-file10
packager10
spacemacs10
package10
powershell10
wpf10
configurations10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
snoopwpf/snoopwpf
Jun 2012 - Sep 2012
Snoop - The WPF Spy Utility
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:70 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Bailey primarily contributed to the WPF Spy Utility, enhancing its functionality with a PowerShell console integration. They added a new PowerShell tab, exposing variables and implementing features like command history using PowerShell. The user refactored code, removed wrappers, and optimized the PowerShell integration. They also fixed script loading and implemented support for auto-expanding the tree view.
wpfspyutilitysnoopwpf-spy-utility
syl20bnr/spacemacs
Jan 2016 - Feb 2016
A community-driven Emacs distribution - The best editor is neither Emacs nor Vim, it's Emacs *and* Vim!
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 7 PRs, 7 comments in 20 days
Contributions summary:Bailey contributed to the Emacs configuration, focusing on customizing and improving user experience. Their commits involved modifying packages, including helm and plantuml, for enhanced functionality and ease of use. They addressed bugs and streamlined existing features, such as handling auto-highlight and scoping aliases within the shell. The user also incorporated changes to the Vim keybindings and error handling functionality.
emacsvimcommunity-drivenconfigurationspacemacs
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