Rong Wang
Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Rong Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with 14 years of experience building scalable web and backend systems, currently at Microsoft in Old Toronto. He has deep Ruby/Rails and full-stack JavaScript experience, contributing meaningfully to high-profile open-source projects like Discourse and rack-mini-profiler that improve developer tooling and production diagnostics. Rong has shipped features and refactors across large codebases at Amazon/AWS and has a track record of fixing tricky integration, serialization, and middleware edge cases. His background includes research-grade algorithm design from a Master’s at University of Waterloo, where he produced near-perfect de novo protein sequencing results, reflecting strong algorithmic rigor. He’s comfortable across the stack—from low-level middleware and performance profiling to Ember.js front-end improvements—and often focuses on maintainability and structural refactors that pay off long-term. Pragmatic and detail-oriented, Rong combines production-scale engineering with open-source craftsmanship.
14 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, GPA: 86.5/100, Bachelor of Engineering (B.E.), Automation Engineer Technology/Technician, GPA: 86.5/100 at University of Science and Technology of ChinaMaster, Computer Science, GPA: 92.3/100, Master, Computer Science, GPA: 92.3/100 at University of Waterloo
Chinese, English
Github Skills (38)
markdown10
json10
ruby-rails10
javascript10
performance-monitor10
performance-analytics10
xml-rpc-client10
code-profiling10
back-end-development10
testing10
plugin-development10
rspec10
rails10
gruntjs10
rack-middleware10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
discourse/discourse
Feb 2013 - Mar 2022
A platform for community discussion. Free, open, simple.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1846 reviews, 6930 commits, 1258 PRs in 9 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Rong's contributions primarily focused on refining the forum's features and improving the administrator interface. They made adjustments to the forum's behavior, such as modifying flag thresholds for high-trust users and adding the display of topic status in the flagged topics list. The changes also involved improvements to the lazy loading of images and fixing database issues related to multisite setups.
discourserailsforumjavascriptruby
evilstreak/markdown-js
Aug 2013 - Sep 2014
A Markdown parser for javascript
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:28 commits, 1 comment in 1 year 1 month
Contributions summary:Rong significantly contributed to the markdown-js project by implementing new features and addressing bugs related to markdown parsing and rendering. They added support for features such as escaping characters, handling URLs with special characters, and improved the processing of lists. The user also worked on integrating the project with Grunt, refactoring the codebase, and improving the build process. Furthermore, they focused on ensuring the correct output and handling of various edge cases to increase the accuracy of the Markdown parser.
commonmarkjavascriptmarkdown-parsermarkdown-itextensible
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