Tim Wong
Director Of Engineering, Central Platform Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTim Wong is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience scaling frontend and platform teams across startups and enterprise acquisitions, currently directing Central Platform Engineering at Upwork in San Francisco. He has a strong track record building developer and UI platforms—leading Developer Experience Tooling, UI Platform, and platform tooling teams—and has repeatedly shipped foundational front-end architectures used as long-lived product backbones. Tim blends hands-on technical depth (Angular, TypeScript, web UX) with talent-building and operational rigor, having grown distributed teams and boosted engineering productivity at companies like WorkSpan, Instart (Akamai), Dremio, and VMware. He pairs product-focused UX stewardship with platform thinking, having led UX, docs, and UI engineering functions concurrently, and has experience driving quick expansions and successful acquisitions. A UC Davis MS/BS computer science graduate, Tim is known for turning complex UX and platform challenges into scalable, developer-friendly solutions.
11 years of coding experience
22 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.) Computer Science at University of California, Davis
English, Chinese
Github Skills (17)
aws-lambda10
semantics10
catalog9
nessie9
spark9
java9
transactional8
lakes7
git7
seed3
typescript2
angular2
angularjs2
browser1
chrome-extension1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
thwong/angular-webpack
Apr 2016 - May 2016
Contributions:55 pushes, 8 branches in 20 days
webpackangular
thwong/angular-yeoman-modularization
May 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:22 pushes, 5 branches in 23 days
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