Dominic Wong
Vice President Of Engineering at Ravelin Technology
United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolDominic Wong is a pragmatic engineering leader and VP of Engineering with 13 years of experience building large-scale, cloud-native systems from seed-stage startups to Tier 1 banks. He was one of Monzo’s earliest engineers (employee #12), helped architect Hailo’s industry-recognised microservices platform, and later led Micro as CTO, operating an API platform handling tens of millions of calls while contributing significant fixes and runtime improvements to the go-micro open-source ecosystem. Dominic excels at leading multidisciplinary teams through migrations to service-oriented architectures, driving reliability and cost control for high-throughput platforms, and scaling engineering organisations and career frameworks. He combines hands-on backend and DevOps skills in Go, Kubernetes and distributed systems with strategic delivery experience across EMEA and North America. A rarely highlighted strength is his track record of establishing production-safe release processes and CI/CD automation that enabled near-zero downtime replatforms at scale.
13 years of coding experience
18 years of employment as a software developer
MEng, Computing, MEng, Computing at Imperial College London
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Github Skills (33)
go-modules10
docker10
apidoc10
microservices-application10
distributed-systems10
dockers10
go10
api10
microservices10
devops10
runtime-environment10
postgresql9
go-gorm9
kubernetes9
mdns9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
micro/micro
May 2020 - Feb 2022
An API development platform
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:19 releases, 66 reviews, 129 commits in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Dominic primarily focused on bug fixes and improvements related to the `micro new --type api` command, involving updates to go.mod, go.sum, and proto compilation. They also fixed a nil pointer in the notify function within the platform code and addressed issues related to service status updates. Furthermore, the user contributed to implementing a proper release process, specifically for running the service in a k8s environment.
apiapi-firstdockercloudcloud-platform
micro/services
Mar 2021 - Feb 2022
Real World Micro Services
Role in this project:Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:14 reviews, 89 commits, 137 PRs in 10 months
Contributions summary:Dominic's contributions primarily focused on back-end development and system maintenance within the microservices architecture. The commits reveal the implementation of a multitenant streams API, the modification of Go modules and dependency versions, and the creation of user-related APIs. Additionally, the user demonstrates DevOps skills by integrating into CI/CD pipeline and setting up automated processes. They were involved in setting up admin endpoints to delete data.
cloudm3omicro-servicesservices
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