Glen Tona
Head Of Engineering at Nextdoor
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolGlen Tona is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience building cloud-native platforms and consumer-facing products, now serving as Head of Engineering at Nextdoor in San Francisco. He has led platform teams at Nextdoor and Pixel Labs that fuse machine learning with geospatial APIs to deliver localized, real-time content, and previously helped shape IBM Cloud’s hybrid platform offerings. Glen pairs hands-on engineering chops—contributing to Cloud Foundry’s cloud_controller_ng with backend fixes for service broker workflows—with a talent for scaling teams and systems to serve neighborhoods at scale. Known for pragmatic refactors and improving error handling in production systems, he brings a blend of technical depth, product sensibility, and community-minded mission.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.) Computer Science at Virginia Tech
Albanian
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (9)
rspec10
cloud-foundry10
api10
service-broker10
back-end-development10
apidoc10
ruby10
java6
data-structures6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
cloudfoundry/cloud_controller_ng
Mar 2015 - Mar 2015
Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 21 pushes in 7 days
Contributions summary:Glen contributed to the Cloud Foundry Cloud Controller by addressing issues related to service plan updates and broker responses. Their work included modifying service broker client logic to handle "succeeded" and "in progress" states, and implementing the enqueuing of polling jobs. They also refactored and improved existing code, and adjusted controller logic. Additionally, the user improved error handling by improving error message formatting.
foundrycontrollercloud-foundrysap-hanaruby
Hoodline/node-uber
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 4 months
apijavascriptubernodejsnodejs-wrapper
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