Ling Toh
Senior Director Of Engineering at Physna
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolLing Toh is a Senior Director of Engineering with a decade of experience building cloud-native, enterprise-grade SaaS and 3D search platforms, currently leading Physna’s Enterprise team from Seattle. She blends hands-on systems engineering—containerized deployments, secure API design, scalable data systems—with strategic leadership to deliver resilient, mission-critical infrastructure for industrial customers. Her background spans major cloud and enterprise environments at Microsoft, Oracle, Heap, and Amazon, bringing deep expertise in Kubernetes, serverless, storage virtualization, and disaster recovery. An active contributor to Azure Functions runtime and durable extensions, she has improved orchestrator functionality and PowerShell support, demonstrating a commitment to robust, test-driven backend systems. With graduate training in computer science and a systems-thinking approach, she excels at clarifying complex product–infrastructure tradeoffs and scaling teams and platforms in production.
10 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
PhD Computer Science, PhD Computer Science at Florida State UniversityBA Business Management, BA Business Management at Ottawa University
English, Chinese, Chinese, hainanese, Malay
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Github Skills (22)
unit-testing10
net10
azure-functions10
dotnet10
xunit10
durable-functions10
asp-net10
dotnet-core10
powershell10
csharp10
testing9
microsoft-azure9
serverless9
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azure-eventhub6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Azure/azure-functions-durable-extension
Aug 2017 - Apr 2018
Durable Task Framework extension for Azure Functions
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:24 commits, 25 PRs, 9 pushes in 7 months
Contributions summary:Ling primarily contributed to the development and testing of the Azure Functions Durable Extension. Their work involved adding new functionality to the orchestrator functions, including the ability to create new orchestration instances and call other orchestrator functions. The user also added tests to validate the functionality of the extension, including tests for unregistered orchestrators, activities, and valid orchestration calls. These contributions reflect their focus on ensuring the stability and features of the extension.
durableazure-functionsazure
Azure/azure-functions-host
May 2016 - Apr 2018
The host/runtime that powers Azure Functions
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:9 commits, 7 PRs, 1 push in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Ling primarily contributed to the implementation and maintenance of the PowerShell support within the Azure Functions host. This involved creating and modifying the `PowerShellFunctionInvoker` class, which handles the execution of PowerShell scripts within the Azure Functions environment. Furthermore, the user added settings manager functionality within the codebase, including the implementation of host secret persistence. The contributions are aimed at improving the functions' execution, and supporting durable functions' configuration.
hostazure-functionsserverlesspowersruntime
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