Stuart Long
Software Engineer at TikTok
New York, New York, Singapore
Summary
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Top SchoolStuart Long is a software engineer with five years of experience building scalable back-end systems and integrations across startups and tech platforms, currently working on Account Safety at TikTok. He has a strong SaaS and API background from Kisi, where he built a marketplace that generated an estimated $1.6M and improved uptime with circuit breakers and multi-language support. Stuart also has hands-on ML/AI product experience from DSO National Laboratories, leading development and project management on an AI-powered video editor with advanced CV/NLP pipelines. As a Year 4 NUS Computer Science student and NOC New York participant based in New York, he combines academic rigor with international startup exposure. An active open-source contributor, he added authentication, comment functionality, and tests to the popular tech-interview-handbook repository, demonstrating attention to reliability and developer workflows. He’s comfortable shipping end-to-end features that blend backend robustness, third-party integrations, and measurable business impact.
5 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
86.25/90, 86.25/90 at Pioneer Junior CollegeNOC New York, Batch 19, Computer Science, NOC New York, Batch 19, Computer Science at NUS Overseas CollegesBachelor of Computing, Computer Science, Bachelor of Computing, Computer Science at National University of Singapore
Github Skills (8)
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Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
yangshun/tech-interview-handbook
Oct 2022 - Nov 2022
💯 Curated coding interview preparation materials for busy software engineers
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:56 commits, 4 PRs, 91 pushes in 1 month
Contributions summary:Stuart primarily contributed to the backend functionality of the offers-related features. Their work included implementing endpoints for creating and retrieving profiles, adding edit token checks, and fixing bugs related to company associations. The user also added features for user authentication and authorization, specifically around comments, with additions to the backend for comment functionality. Furthermore, the user refactored existing code and added tests for the implemented functionalities.
preparationbusybehavioral-interviewsalgorithm-interview-questionsengineers
s7u4rt99/tp
Sep 2021 - Dec 2021
Contributions:59 pushes, 7 branches, 3 tags in 2 months
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