Gilbert Wong
Senior Software Engineer at Rightway
United States
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Top SchoolGilbert Wong is a Senior Software Engineer with 10 years of experience building robust backend systems and developer-facing tools, currently at Rightway after recent senior roles at Tint and Buf. He specializes in TypeScript, Go, and React, and has contributed notable open-source work—adding API services and data-model improvements to bufbuild/buf and implementing gRPC and gRPC-web transports for connectrpc/connect-es. Gilbert combines product-facing engineering at consumer brands and platforms with low-level networking and RPC expertise, making him comfortable across both high-throughput services and developer toolchains. Colleagues rely on him to refactor core APIs safely and deliver transport features like streaming, compression, and timeout management. His background in business management gives him an uncommon fluency in translating product requirements into technical design and clear stakeholder communication.
10 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Notre Dame de Namur UniversityArchbishop Riordan High SchoolBachelor's degree Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services, Bachelor's degree Business Management Marketing and Related Support Services at California Lutheran University
Chinese, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
apidoc10
protocol-buffers10
http10
typescript10
go10
api10
typescript-types10
compression10
nodejs10
typescripts10
grpc10
bufr9
cli8
protobuf8
protobuffer8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
connectrpc/connect-es
Nov 2022 - Jan 2023
The TypeScript implementation of Connect: Protobuf RPC that works.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1 release, 36 reviews, 21 commits in 2 months
Contributions summary:Gilbert focused on implementing various transport mechanisms for gRPC and gRPC-web within the Connect ecosystem. They developed gRPC-web transports using Node.js http2 and http. Their work included implementing unary and streaming calls, compression, and incorporating features like timeout and connection management for HTTP and HTTP/2 transports. The contributions included incorporating connect protocol and gRPC-web protocol version headers.
interoperablerpcprotobufgrpcjavascript
bufbuild/buf
Oct 2022 - Oct 2024
The best way of working with Protocol Buffers.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 37 PRs, 87 pushes in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Gilbert primarily contributed to the development of the `bufbuild/buf` project by adding and modifying RPC endpoints within the `AdminService` and `UserService` of the project's API. These changes involved creating new messages, such as `BreakingChangePolicy` and `UserPluginPreference` and updating existing ones. The user also refactored code by renaming variables and messages, such as renaming `BreakingChangeSettings` to `BreakingChangePolicy`. These commits show the user's involvement in the project's core functionality and data models.
protocol-buffersbuf-schema-registryprotobufgrpcbuf-cli
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