Tong Gao is a software engineer with 12 years’ experience building production trading systems, game engine subsystems, and developer tooling across finance and gaming. He has moved between low-latency trading infrastructure and complex engine work—most recently joining Tower Research Capital after improving live trading, backtesting, and ops tooling at a quant firm. His background includes internships at Meta and SenseTime and a strong academic foundation from Tsinghua and Carnegie Mellon, melding research experience in face recognition and ranking algorithms with hands-on systems engineering. An Android contributor who built tooling to extract and verify APK signatures, he combines meticulous implementation with a taste for polished, durable software. Based in Shanghai, he’s known for quietly mastering technical depth and shipping production-grade features that bridge research and operations.
12 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Technology, Master of Science - MS Computer Science and Technology at Tsinghua University
Master of Science - MS Computer Science, Master of Science - MS Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University
High School Diploma, High School Diploma at No.2 High School of East China Normal University
Contributions:7 releases, 57 commits, 2 PRs in 5 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tong primarily focused on developing and refining an Android application for retrieving APK information. Their contributions included implementing the core functionality to retrieve and display APK signatures, enabling users to share the results, and integrating Android V2 signature verification. They also added a tool to retrieve basic application information and made version and usage improvements.
Contributions:10 releases, 94 commits, 13 PRs in 3 years 2 months
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