Tony Payne
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Google
Claremont, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Payne is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 14 years at Google and over two decades building scalable, distributed systems across startups and enterprise firms. He blends hands-on engineering with leadership, having architected core products, led teams from startup to Series B readiness, and driven patentable innovations in content and recommendation systems. Tony has a strong track record rescuing troubled projects, streamlining legacy codebases, and implementing high-performance infrastructure that delivered measurable cost and latency improvements. Based in Claremont, CA, he pairs deep systems expertise with product-minded pragmatism—often stepping into both coding and organizational gaps to accelerate delivery. Notably, he invented core technology early in his career that materially reduced costs and enabled crucial funding milestones, reflecting a bias for high-impact technical work.
14 years of coding experience
23 years of employment as a software developer
7-12, N/A, 7-12, N/A at St Mark's School of TexasCalifornia Institute of Technology
Github Skills (2)
discovery8
service-discovery5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (2)
PaulKinlan/WebIntents
Aug 2011 - Oct 2011
A client side service discovery and execution model.
Contributions:69 commits in 1 month
client-sidediscoveryservice-discoveryexecutionservice-side
xj35/tcu
Nov 2022 - Nov 2022
transmission controller
Contributions:1 PR, 1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
controllertransmission
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