Ernest Wong
Founding Engineer at Sequence Holdings
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolErnest Wong is a founding engineer and product-minded software professional with a decade of experience building ML-driven systems and startups from New York. He blends formal training in computer science (University of Waterloo) and business (Wilfrid Laurier, LSE background mentioned) to move quickly between technical design, operations, and go-to-market tradeoffs. His recent roles span early-stage founding engineering at Sequence Holdings and Icon alongside short, focused machine learning and software engineering stints at xAI, Databricks, and Bloomberg, reflecting an ability to ship high-impact work in compressed timelines. Comfortable in both infrastructure and applied ML, he repeatedly joins nascent teams to define core architecture and execution cadence. Colleagues describe him as a practical leader with strengths in team building, coaching, and translating business needs into robust technical plans. Outside work he brings a consulting-minded rigor to operational problems, turning ambiguous challenges into measurable outcomes.
10 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration, Bachelor of Business Administration - BBA, Business Administration at Wilfrid Laurier UniversityInternational Baccalaureate, International Baccalaureate at St. Robert Catholic High SchoolBachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (2)
user-guide9
magento6
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
Talkdesk/looker-slackbot
Jan 2017 - Apr 2017
Contributions:1 push, 2 branches in 3 months
ernestwaynewong/merchdocs
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
Magento Open Source User Guide
Contributions:9 pushes, 1 branch in 1 day
mysqlmagento2-moduleuser-guidemagento2magento2-extension
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