Brandon Ong
Senior Software Engineer (L5) at Intrinsic
Sunnyvale, California, United States
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Top SchoolBrandon Ong is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years' experience building resilient robotics and cloud data infrastructure, currently shaping interoperability and data pipelines at Intrinsic. He combines deep hands-on expertise in C++ and Python with core ROS and Gazebo contributions—authored cross-repo ports and a ROS 2 runtime serialization feature—enabling large-scale robot fleets and petabyte-scale telemetry. Known for pragmatic systems thinking, he has reduced cloud costs via metric-driven autoscaling, engineered crash-resistant disk-persistence layers for on-prem workcells, and designed protobuf-to-ROS2 conversion tooling to unlock visualization and analysis. A multidisciplinary maker and musician who founded a successful board-game studio, he brings product instincts and rapid learning to complex robotics problems, plus real-world experience mentoring engineers and running multi-day onboarding workshops.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Professional Diploma Programme (and Master's credit), Entrepreneurship, Professional Diploma Programme (and Master's credit), Entrepreneurship at University of California, BerkeleyMaster of Science - MS, Technology Entrepreneurship, Master of Science - MS, Technology Entrepreneurship at Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD)Junior College, GCSE 'A' Levels, AAAA (Perfect UAS) (H2 Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Literature), Junior College, GCSE 'A' Levels, AAAA (Perfect UAS) (H2 Biology, Chemistry, Mathematics, Literature) at Raffles InstitutionDiploma, Music Performance, Electronic Organ, Distinction, Diploma, Music Performance, Electronic Organ, Distinction at LCCM
English, ChineseGithub contributions (5)
brandonongnz/bonz-realtor-portfolio
Apr 2026 - Apr 2026
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 10 days
brandonongnz/star_wars_survey
Nov 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:3 pushes, 1 branch in 6 days
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