Tony Goold
Principal Developer at Solink
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Goold is a seasoned principal developer and technical leader with over two decades of experience delivering mobile, desktop, and large-scale online services, now based in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He rose through engineering ranks at Wattpad from Lead iOS Developer to Head of Technology, shaping architecture and operational strategy for an 80M+ monthly-user platform and supporting its USD 600M acquisition by Naver. Tony combines hands-on engineering—driving migrations from monolith to microservices and REST to event-driven systems—with mentoring and organizational design, advocating platform-oriented teams and empowering those closest to problems to decide. He has a proven track record improving product quality and release discipline (iOS crash-free rates of ~99.8% and App Store ratings jump) and embeds security and regulatory thinking into technical strategy. Now focused on principal-level engineering at Solink, he continues to blend practical delivery, architectural oversight, and coaching to scale resilient, secure systems.
11 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
Memorial University, Newfoundland and Labrador
English, French, Spanish, Russian, Norwegian
Github Skills (46)
php9
linter9
deadlock8
lint8
cloc8
golang8
csharp7
programming-language7
static-analysis7
coverage7
python7
cpp7
mining6
go6
incremental-game6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tonygoold/ComputerSim
Feb 2020 - May 2023
A basic computer simulator web application
Contributions:8 PRs, 10 pushes, 9 branches in 3 years 3 months
javascriptweb-applicationsimulationsimulatorweb-simulator
tonygoold/awspolicy
Jun 2022 - Nov 2022
Contributions:25 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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