Gary Tong
Software Engineer at Indeed.com
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolGary Tong is a software engineer with a decade of hands-on experience building production systems and developer tooling, currently engineering at Indeed in Seattle. He combines a strong full-stack background—improving web app performance and billing flows at Roadmunk—with systems and automation expertise from Intel, where he built CI/CD and reliability tools for Optane simulation software. His academic roots in computer science and molecular biology underpin a pragmatic approach to data-driven problems, exemplified by automated Salmonella strain classification used in public health investigations. Comfortable across Python, Bash, Ansible, CI platforms, and modern front-end stacks, he has repeatedly reduced operational friction and test flakiness to accelerate delivery. Colleagues would note his rare blend of biological research experience and infrastructure-first engineering perspective that helps bridge domain knowledge with scalable software solutions.
10 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours Co-op), Bachelor of Computer Science (Honours Co-op) at University of ManitobaMolecular Genetics, Molecular Genetics at The University of WinnipegBachelor’s Degree, Biology/Medical Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Biology/Medical Science at Western University
English, Chinese, French, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
nmf10
subtype10
genomes10
subtyping10
balloon9
taxonomy9
bioinformatics9
genomics9
exchange8
javascript7
ruby7
rails7
collaboration7
ruby-on-rails6
marker2
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
gcttong/gcttong.github.io
Sep 2016 - Nov 2017
Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 2 months
gcttong/github-actions-for-ci
Sep 2021 - Sep 2021
Contributions:1 review, 5 PRs, 13 pushes in 1 day
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