Summary
Tong W is a pragmatic software engineer with 8 years of experience building scalable full-stack systems, currently contributing at TikTok in California. He blends strong backend skills in Golang, SQL, and Python with front-end expertise in JavaScript and React to ship performant, user-focused features—once cutting data-table render latency from 3s to 200ms. A San Jose State MS in Computer Software Engineering and prior work at OmniTier underline his ability to refactor legacy code, consolidate complex APIs, and create reusable UI components that reduced repetitive work by 90%. An active open-source author whose project attracted 500+ GitHub stars and 100k+ users, he pairs product sensitivity with engineering rigor. He also brings multidisciplinary roots from mechanical and automotive engineering, which inform a methodical, measurement-driven approach to systems design.
8 years of coding experience