Rich Tong
Chief Cook And Bottle Washer at Restart Partners
West Coast, Singapore
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Top SchoolRich Tong is a veteran technology and venture leader with 11+ years of recent hands-on startup experience and a multi-decade career spanning product, investing, and engineering leadership. Currently leading Total Neural Enterprises and several stealth ventures as a "chief cook and bottle washer" and Chief Instigator, he blends deep technical curiosity with operational breadth—doing everything from DevOps and AI strategy to fundraising and board-level governance. He founded and scaled companies, led investments through Iron Snow and Ignition, and sits on multiple boards, bringing rare perspective on how software disrupts industries. Educated at Princeton and Stanford (MSEE, MBA), he actively relearns technology by building and advising cloud-native and AI solutions while also running social-impact efforts like Millions of Masks for Children and Restart Partners. Not obvious from the title: he alternates intense technical work with strategic investing, frequently moving between writing IP, podcasting on management insights, and hands-on product work. Based in Singapore on the West Coast, he combines global venture experience with operator grit to help startups grow and societies improve.
11 years of coding experience
35 years of employment as a software developer
BSE Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BSE Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Princeton UniversityMBA Business, MBA Business at Stanford University
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Github Skills (200)
simulator10
command-line-interface10
openapi10
autonomous-driving10
swiftui10
qemu10
webui10
winget10
asdf10
jupyterhub10
llm10
self-driving-car10
command-line10
notebook10
hugo-theme10
Programming languages (25)
Github contributions (5)
tne-ai/lib
Nov 2020 - Jul 2026
Standard library routines for shell, include and other files from @richtong
Contributions:35 PRs, 726 pushes, 78 branches in 5 years 9 months
standard-libraryshellroutinesbash
responsible-org/web-hugo
Jan 2021 - Nov 2024
Contributions:85 pushes, 4 branches in 3 years 10 months
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