Tony Su
Lead Software Engineer at The Walt Disney Company
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolTony Su is a Lead Software Engineer based in San Francisco with 11 years of experience designing and building backend, data and infrastructure systems from the ground up. He has led cross-functional teams and shipped large-scale advertising, billing, and subscription platforms at Yelp and now drives backend and data initiatives for advertising at The Walt Disney Company. His technical breadth spans Python, Java/Scala, data warehousing and streaming (Redshift, Spark, Flink, Kafka), AWS infrastructure as code, and production orchestration across microservices and batch systems. Tony pairs hands-on system design and implementation with people leadership—roadmapping, mentoring, and stakeholder management—to move complex projects from scoping to rollout. He also has deep experience in subscription e-commerce and labor planning systems from prior roles at IPSY and Amazon, giving him a practical edge in monetization and operational analytics. Outside core engineering he brings an entrepreneurial mindset sharpened by YC Startup School and collaborative, cross-team problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, BerkeleyStartup School, Startup School at Y CombinatorMaster of Information Technology, Master of Information Technology at University of Technology, SydneyBachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science at Beijing Jiaotong University
English, Chinese, Korean, SpanishGithub contributions (5)
tonysuaus/gitshortcuts
Nov 2014 - Aug 2017
Contributions:7 commits, 6 pushes in 2 years 9 months
tonysusf/classic_alg_problems
Mar 2023 - Feb 2024
Contributions:145 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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