Gary Tou
Engineering Manager at Renton School District
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolGary Tou is an Engineering Manager based in Seattle with eight years of experience building and scaling Ruby on Rails teams to solve financial and legal barriers for nonprofits. At Hack Club he grew and mentors an engineering crew that operates Hack Club Bank, hiring engineers and driving product and architectural decisions from onboarding to shipping. He pairs hands-on backend work—evidenced by contributions to the Ruby core and IRB history features—with people leadership, having trained junior engineers through pair programming and code review. Beyond product work, Gary co-founded a global student hackathon and serves on his school district’s CS and business advisory boards, reflecting a strong commitment to youth tech education and nonprofit impact. His academic record (near-perfect GPAs) and a history at Amazon on sensitive content intelligence underscore both technical rigor and operational maturity.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Associate in Arts & Sciences (DTA), 4.0, Associate in Arts & Sciences (DTA), 4.0 at Bellevue CollegeHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Hazen High SchoolBachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.99, Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Science, 3.99 at Seattle University
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Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
ruby/ruby
Dec 2021 - Apr 2023
The Ruby Programming Language
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & QA Engineer
Back-end Developer & QA EngineerContributions:1 review, 1 PR, 1 comment in 1 year 4 months
Contributions summary:Gary primarily contributed to the Ruby programming language's core functionality by addressing a segmentation fault issue related to `BasicObject` and its superclass. They implemented a fix within `vm_insnhelper.c` to handle null superclass scenarios. In addition, the user wrote tests within `test/ruby/test_defined.rb` to verify the fix. They also contributed to the `irb` by implementing a history command and adding tests.
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garyhtou/APCS-Edhesive
Sep 2017 - Sep 2018
AP Computer Science Edhesive
Contributions:157 pushes, 3 branches in 11 months
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