Tony Jin
Co-Founder & CTO at Wormhole Labs
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolTony Jin is a pragmatic engineering leader and founder with a decade of experience building high-scale consumer and platform software from Box to Twitch and now Wormhole Labs. As Co-Founder & CTO he combines deep hands-on engineering—shipping React-based components and resilient upload/preview systems—with leadership of distributed teams solving hard blockchain interoperability problems. He previously led video client SDKs at Twitch and re-architected Box Preview and Elements, work that powered millions of weekly previews and contributed notable open-source projects. Tony blends product-minded technical direction with low-ego, high-agency management, favoring lean, remote-first teams that ship reliably. His background includes frontline front-end contributions (e.g., box-ui-elements) alongside systems-level work in live video and multi-chain messaging, making him fluent across client, platform, and protocol layers. Based in the Bay Area and trained at Stanford, he pairs startup grit with enterprise-scale execution.
10 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at Stanford University
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Github Skills (6)
javascript10
react10
ui-design9
front-end-development9
uid9
box-api7
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
box/box-ui-elements
Jun 2017 - Jul 2018
React Components for Box's Design System and Pluggable Components
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:3 releases, 31 commits, 52 PRs in 1 year
Contributions summary:Tony primarily contributed to the development and maintenance of React components for the Box UI elements. Their work includes implementing features like chunked uploads and adding functionality for preview download and printing. They also made updates to existing components, such as the header logo and upload state, while ensuring code quality through the use of classnames and event handling. Furthermore, they also refactored and improved error handling and retry mechanisms for the file upload components.
box-previewreactbox-content-pickerboxjavascript
tonyjin/box-content-preview
Jul 2017 - Aug 2018
JavaScript library for rendering files stored on Box
Contributions:158 pushes, 164 branches, 3 tags in 1 year
storedjavascript-libraryboxjavascriptrendering
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