Oliver Wong
Software Development Engineer II at Amazon
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolOliver Wong is a seasoned software engineer with over two decades of JVM expertise and 15 years building web backends across Java, Scala, Kotlin, Node.js, PHP, Ruby, and more. Currently a Software Development Engineer II at Amazon, he builds and maintains high-scale automated content-inspection systems for Kindle, having driven a 32% cost reduction in rights-review and earned an Amazon Inventor award. Known for rapid promotion into leadership roles, he combines hands-on service design with team-level process improvements and operational ownership of dozens of backend services. A prolific learner and functional-programming advocate, he leads internal FP seminars and regularly explores new languages, frameworks, and academic CS research. He also has deep experience designing real-time collaborative systems and structured operational-transform approaches from earlier roles. Based in Seattle, he brings a pragmatic mix of production-grade distributed systems experience and continuous improvement mindset.
15 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
DEC, Pure and Applied Science, DEC, Pure and Applied Science at Dawson CollegeBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at McGill University
English, French, Japanese
Stackoverflow
318reputation
14kreached
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Github Skills (126)
react-button10
javascript10
js10
nvidia10
moonlight10
css10
cdn10
qt9
windows-app9
linux9
browser9
agile9
steam9
sdl9
dot9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
NebuPookins/hack-a-vator
Feb 2015 - Dec 2022
Contributions:1 push, 5 branches in 7 years 11 months
NebuPookins/ssc-to-sm
Sep 2018 - Mar 2022
Contributions:4 commits, 2 pushes, 2 branches in 3 years 6 months
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