Benson Wong
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBenson Wong is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on software engineer with 15 years of experience building distributed systems, game networking, and developer-facing infrastructure. He progressed from early web and IT roles to co-founding startups and leading engineering teams at Mozilla, where he advanced from operations engineer to senior engineering manager. Recently he’s focused on AI/LLM product exploration and prototyping while joining Tailscale as a Member of Technical Staff, blending product curiosity with deep systems and networking experience. Benson has shipped async networking and asset-streaming systems in game engines, built backend APIs and deployment automation, and brings an operator’s mindset to scalable product design. Colocated in Vancouver, he pairs managerial empathy with low-level technical craftsmanship and a knack for turning complex async problems into pragmatic solutions.
15 years of coding experience
26 years of employment as a software developer
Java certification Oracle DBA Java Oracle DBA .NET development C# Oracle Forms etc., Java certification Oracle DBA Java Oracle DBA .NET development C# Oracle Forms etc. at Extranc Engineering College
Github Skills (200)
http10
firefox-addon10
gossip10
specification10
thunderbird10
mozilla-firefox10
artifacts10
firefox10
api10
playback10
monorepo10
json-document10
conflict-resolution10
json10
llama10
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
mostlygeek/llama-swap
Oct 2024 - Apr 2025
transparent proxy server for llama.cpp's server to provide automatic model swapping
Contributions:6 reviews, 58 PRs, 145 pushes in 5 months
mozilla-services/go-syncstorage
Nov 2015 - Sep 2017
SyncStorage Server with more golang and less indexes!
Contributions:382 commits, 262 PRs, 396 pushes in 1 year 9 months
golangindexesserver
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