Daniel Wong
Research Engineer at LayerZero Labs
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Singapore
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Top SchoolDaniel Wong is a research engineer specializing in distributed systems, ML+systems integration, caching, and performance, with 13 years of industry and research experience. He recently transitioned from a PhD in Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon to a research role at LayerZero Labs, blending deep academic rigor with production-minded engineering. His background includes research and internships at Google Brain, Dropbox, and Facebook, plus research roles in Singaporean high-performance computing institutes, reflecting a consistent focus on high-throughput, low-latency systems. Daniel’s work habitually bridges theory and practice—profiling and optimizing real systems informed by formal ML and systems insights. Based in Pittsburgh with roots in Singapore and a Cambridge undergraduate foundation, he brings a global perspective and cross-cultural collaboration skills to distributed systems challenges. Colleagues describe him as someone who finds practical leverage points—often caching or scheduling tweaks—that unlock outsized performance gains.
13 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
BA honours degree Computer Science Tripos, BA honours degree Computer Science Tripos at University of CambridgeDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHwa Chong Institution
English
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Github Skills (41)
caching10
cpp10
concurrency10
python9
deep-learning8
flare8
tensorflow8
machine-learning8
phabricator8
svn8
reproducible-research7
neural-network7
ml7
deep-neural-networks7
html6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
CUMSA/members
Feb 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:20 PRs, 59 pushes, 24 branches in 8 months
phpregistrationmembersdatabasepostgresql
wonglkd/PLW
Apr 2013 - Apr 2014
Contributions:66 commits in 11 months
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