Ruth Wong
Engineer at Whiz Voice
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRuth Wong is an engineer and systems-focused SRE with 12 years of experience building reliable, automated infrastructure and developer tooling from startups to large scale operations. Based in San Francisco, she has led server configuration strategy and large OS upgrades at Pinterest (100K+ servers), sped up testing and deploys through automation, and prototyped automatic machine upgrades showcased at SREcon. Her work spans backend, DevOps, and UX-by-way-of-tooling—contributing to projects like Teletraan and improving Atom’s editor ergonomics—while also writing curriculum and developer stories for Ops School. Ruth pairs a scientific rigor (MSc in Bioinformatics, MPH studies) with hands-on manufacturing and embedded testing experience, often solving constraints-driven problems such as accessibility-service testing and automated screen-agent fixes. She brings a rare mix of systems-level reliability engineering, technical writing, and product-minded experimentation.
12 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
MSc, Bioinformatics, MSc, Bioinformatics at Western UniversityMaster of Public Health - MPH, Master of Public Health - MPH at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health
English, Chinese
Github Skills (16)
atom-editor10
monitoring10
javascript10
restructuredtext10
sphinx10
documentation9
python9
coffeescript9
django9
keymaps9
configuration-management9
deploying8
cson8
markdown7
markdown-it7
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
pinterest/teletraan
Dec 2016 - Dec 2016
Teletraan is Pinterest's deploy system.
Role in this project:
Back-end & DevOps Engineer
Back-end & DevOps EngineerContributions:16 commits, 28 PRs, 12 pushes in 16 days
Contributions summary:Ruth primarily contributed to the deployment and health monitoring aspects of the Teletraan system. They implemented and improved links to a Phobos monitoring system, added error details, and corrected formatting. Additionally, the user addressed pathing issues for upgrade scripts and updated the Django settings. The work demonstrates focus on system configuration and monitoring integration.
dockerpinterest
opsschool/curriculum
Aug 2016 - Aug 2016
Ops School Curriculum
Role in this project:Technical Writer & Content Contributor
Technical Writer & Content ContributorContributions:5 commits, 5 PRs, 2 comments in 13 days
Contributions summary:Ruth focused on improving the existing curriculum by fixing typos, correcting formatting issues, and addressing malformed "todo" items within the RST files. The user also added developer stories to the curriculum, describing real-world work scenarios for students. The contributions primarily involved enhancing the content of the curriculum with code and content examples.
restructuredtextopscurriculumsphinx
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