Brandon Tong
Forward Deployed Engineer at Cresta
Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolBrandon Tong is a Forward Deployed Engineer with 11 years of experience building distributed and ML systems, currently working on AI voice agents at Cresta while based in Vancouver. He combines deep theoretical expertise—research in high-dimensional probability and novel Top-K activation approximations—with hands-on GPU-level systems work like Triton-optimized GEMM for LLAMA2. Brandon has a track record of shipping production systems from Splunk’s edge compute preview to mission-critical microservices at ZALORA, and has led client-facing AI deployments that delivered 5–10× cost reductions and negotiated over $20M in SOWs. His background uniquely spans military medical leadership, full-stack startup engineering, and graduate-level ML research, reflecting strong cross-domain communication and operational discipline. Colleagues rely on him to translate cutting-edge research into performant, deployable solutions that meet strict business and client constraints.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
GPA: 4.0, GPA: 4.0 at The University of British Columbia
Github Skills (26)
python8
machine-learning8
statistics8
data-science7
gpu7
deep-learning7
data-analysis7
golang6
cloud-native5
neural-network5
nearest-neighbor-search5
scikit-learn5
numpy5
image-search5
vector-search4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
brandonidas/brandonidas.github.io
Dec 2018 - Jul 2026
Personal Website with Tensorflow.js Demos
Contributions:2 PRs, 81 pushes, 10 branches in 7 years 8 months
tensorflow-jsjavascriptreacttensorflow
brandonidas/MEANIEpublic
Dec 2018 - Dec 2019
Contributions:2 pushes in 11 months
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