Jen Tong
Lead Fungineer at Fire and Mudstone
Greater Vancouver Metropolitan Area Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolJen Tong is a creative technologist and Lead Fungineer with 14 years of experience blending software engineering, developer relations, and hands-on maker craft to empower artists and build delightful products. A former Google/ Firebase senior engineer who worked across Glass, Cloud, Firebase, and AR/VR platforms, she has deep experience creating SDKs, docs, sample apps and fixing production security bugs (including a noted contribution to the Google Glass Java quickstart). Based in Greater Vancouver, she now leads Fire and Mudstone where she turns clay and steel into playful, tech-enabled objects while helping artists adopt tooling. Jen’s background spans startups to Fortune 500s, pairing low-level engineering chops (from machine code and embedded work to cloud microservices) with a knack for mentoring and translating complex tech for creative users. Known for hiding Easter eggs in SDKs and for an unconventional career path, she brings equal parts pragmatic engineering, product intuition, and maker curiosity to every project.
15 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering, Master of Science - MS, Computer Software Engineering at Santa Clara University
Github Skills (10)
javas10
backend10
back-end-development10
oauth10
java10
jsp9
jspx9
maven9
front-end-development8
google-app-engine8
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
googleglass/mirror-quickstart-java
Apr 2013 - Nov 2013
Google Mirror API's Quickstart for Java
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:27 commits in 6 months
Contributions summary:Jen primarily contributed to the Java-based Google Glassware Quickstart project, focusing on both front-end and back-end aspects. Their work involved fixing a denial-of-service vulnerability within the notification handling, refactoring code to align with standard J2EE and Maven practices, and implementing features like the introduction of "Chipotle" and the addition of Glass icons. The user also upgraded dependencies and improved overall code quality.
java
mimming/snippets
Aug 2015 - Jun 2019
The canonical location for all of my small snippets of code
Contributions:61 commits, 58 pushes, 1 branch in 3 years 10 months
vscodelocationcanonicalsnippets
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