Pun Tong
Senior Staff Scientist --- Clinical Genomic Program at Stanford Health Care
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPun Tong is a Senior Staff Scientist in Stanford Health Care’s Clinical Genomic Program with eight years of experience building, validating, and maintaining cloud-native bioinformatics pipelines for clinical diagnostics. Trained as a mathematician (PhD UCSD) he blends rigorous probabilistic modeling and machine learning to create production-grade tools—ranging from Sanger-reduction and CNV filtering models to fingerprinting and coverage-fill analyses—that have driven multiple panel and WGS services into clinical use. He is an active full-stack and cryptography-minded open-source contributor, with notable work on the Sui blockchain (core cryptographic primitives and performance refactors) and UI/UX improvements across health and fintech projects. Comfortable across front-end, back-end and research code, he also automates operational workflows (e.g., Basespace cleanup) and integrates variant interpretation with clinical reporting systems. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex math into robust, auditable pipelines that accelerate patient-focused genomics.
8 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
University of California San DiegoThe Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK)
Github Skills (25)
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blockchain10
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angular-material10
bootstra10
rust10
typescripts10
angular10
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Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
openMF/web-app
Dec 2018 - Aug 2020
Mifos X Web App is the revamped version of the Mifos X Community App built on top of the Fineract Platform leveraging the popular Angular framework.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:25 commits, 41 PRs, 205 comments in 1 year 8 months
Contributions summary:Pun implemented new components and features for the Mifos X Web App. Their work focused on developing UI elements, including the "manage surveys" and "manage scheduler jobs" components. They also added the "add-role," "loan provisioning criteria", "offices", "employees", "manage tax groups", "currencies", "templates", "sms campaigns", "adhoc query", "users", "tellers", "payment types", "password preferences", "entity data table checks" and "create survey" components. The user appears to be focused on expanding the functionality and user interface of the application.
angular-7mifosx-platformleveragingangularon-top
MystenLabs/sui
Jun 2022 - Sep 2022
Sui, a next-generation smart contract platform with high throughput, low latency, and an asset-oriented programming model powered by the Move programming language
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:125 reviews, 122 commits, 81 PRs in 2 months
Contributions summary:Pun's commits primarily focus on refactoring and enhancing core functionalities of the Sui blockchain platform. They worked on optimizing authority quorum mechanisms by replacing `Vec<PK>` with bitmaps and implementing associated tests. The user also contributed to the underlying cryptography, including adding BLS12381 signatures, Pedersen commitments, and range proofs, which suggests a strong involvement in the core cryptographic operations of the blockchain. Furthermore, the commits highlight efforts in improving the keytool, SDK names, and general cleanup, showcasing a multifaceted contribution to Sui.
ethereumcontractsmart-contract-platformprogramming-languagesui
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