Tony Sun
Senior Software Engineer at The New York Times
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Sun is a senior software engineer with a decade of experience designing and shipping distributed systems and cloud-native services, currently building next-generation RAG search experiences and AI products at The New York Times. He has a strong background in real-time data platforms and microservices from roles at Dataminr and Capital One, where he worked on Kafka streaming, gRPC/REST APIs, and serverless AWS architectures. Tony combines pragmatic backend expertise in Python, Scala, and Java with hands-on experimentation to improve product relevancy and front-page engagement metrics. He pairs technical depth (AWS Solutions Architect Associate) with cross-functional collaboration across AI, data, and newsroom teams to deploy models and features into production. A Georgia Tech CS graduate, he quietly bridges research-grade tooling and newsroom product needs, turning complex data flows into measurable user impact.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese
Github Skills (10)
twine4
react3
chrome-extension3
api2
python2
torrent1
javascript1
wrapper1
nodejs1
bittorrent1
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
jakevollkommer/Rope
Sep 2018 - Dec 2018
An extension to Twine which allows users to collaborate in real time.
Contributions:31 commits, 25 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
twinechrome-extensionreactcollaboratereal-time
tsun1650/Clean-Water-Crowdsourcing
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:27 pushes, 5 branches in 2 months
reportingfindingdrinking-watertestingdocker
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