Tony Hong
Visiting Researcher at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
San Jose, California, United States
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Top SchoolTony Hong is a systems-focused software engineer and researcher with 11 years of hands-on experience building distributed systems and low-latency storage solutions. Currently a Visiting Researcher at UIUC, he works on end-to-end latency optimization for shard logs (OSDI '25 submission) and previously contributed to large-scale shuffle and remote memory projects at Berkeley RISE Lab (SIGCOMM '23 and OSDI '25 submissions). He blends practical engineering—internships at Twitch in ML safety and music—with teaching and course staff roles at UC Berkeley, and has shipped full-stack iOS work as well. Based in San Jose and trained in EECS at UC Berkeley, Tony pairs academic rigor with production-minded implementation, often working at the intersection of memory systems and distributed compute.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Electrical Engineering & Computer Science at UC Berkeley College of EngineeringHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Piedmont Hills High School
English, KoreanGithub contributions (5)
jhong84/test
Jan 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 year 8 months
slin77/M2
Jan 2015 - Jan 2015
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 5 days
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