Tony Tan
Senior Software Development Engineer at Toptal
Missouri, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Tan is a Senior Software Development Engineer with 13 years building scalable cloud and web applications, currently contributing to Amazon's Last Mile organization. He brings deep open-source experience—especially in Python and cloud networking—having made structural and API improvements to OpenStack Neutron and contributed to major Rackspace private cloud projects. Tony combines fast-paced web development and cloud administration skills with a knack for refactoring complex systems to reduce dependencies and improve filtering and API capabilities. His background spans startups and enterprises (Flatiron Health, Cedar, LogFire/Oracle) and freelance work through Toptal, demonstrating adaptability across domains like healthcare, logistics, and CDN services. Based in Missouri, he pairs an MS in Computer Science with practical DevOps/Ansible experience, often bridging development and operations to streamline deployments. He’s equally comfortable shipping production features and untangling legacy codebases to enable long-term scalability.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Stephen F. Austin State University
Github Skills (9)
api10
sqlalchemy10
openstack-neutron10
object-oriented-programming10
python10
apidoc10
database9
network-configuration9
databases9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
openstack/neutron
Jun 2016 - Jan 2017
OpenStack Networking (Neutron). Mirror of code maintained at opendev.org.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 commits in 7 months
Contributions summary:Tony primarily worked on refactoring and implementing changes within the OpenStack Neutron project, focusing on the network and DHCP agent binding functionalities. Their contributions included breaking circular dependencies and supporting subresources for PECAN APIs. Additionally, the user relocated DVR models and added support for filtering object string fields using "LIKE" statements. These changes suggest a focus on improving the codebase's structure, API capabilities, and data filtering mechanisms.
ospfopenflownetwork-automationnetworkingsdn
tonytan4ever/SchoolProject
Mar 2013 - Aug 2014
Contributions:48 commits in 1 year 4 months
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