Tony Wong
Software Engineering Manager at Robinhood
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolTony Wong is a software engineering manager with 11 years of hands-on and leadership experience building cloud-native, DevSecOps and Kubernetes-focused products from Pivotal to VMware Tanzu and now Robinhood. He has led teams through productization, acquisitions, and remote transformation while delivering enterprise-grade security and supply-chain tooling, including large-scale OSS license compliance and dependency scanning platforms. Tony blends strong backend and DevOps chops—demonstrated by significant contributions to the popular LicenseFinder project (Gradle, Maven, Go package support and CI enhancements)—with a track record of shipping automation for cluster management and Kubernetes conformance. He mentors engineering teams to adopt robust development practices, new languages and stacks, and to move internal tools into customer-facing products. Based in Old Toronto, he pairs practical cloud engineering expertise with a systems-thinking approach to reduce legal and delivery risk for large organizations. Outside the obvious leadership roles, he often bridges gaps between legal/compliance needs and engineering delivery to accelerate safe product velocity.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
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Github Skills (16)
ruby10
go10
gradlew10
android-fragments10
cicd10
gradle10
android9
maven9
docker8
automated-tests8
dockers8
bash6
android-listview6
layout6
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Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
pivotal/LicenseFinder
Oct 2016 - Jan 2023
Find licenses for your project's dependencies.
Role in this project:
Backend & DevOps Engineer
Backend & DevOps EngineerContributions:30 commits, 20 PRs, 37 pushes in 6 years 4 months
Contributions summary:Tony made significant contributions to the `licensefinder` project, including the implementation of Gradle support, enhancements to Go package dependency handling, and Maven integration improvements. They also updated the CI/CD pipeline and build processes by modifying Ruby versions, enabling PR builds, and addressing JDK installation issues. These changes suggest a focus on improving the project's functionality, testing, and build automation.
licensesdependencieserlangruby
Manifaust/docs-tap
Sep 2021 - Feb 2024
Contributions:6 PRs, 165 pushes, 80 branches in 2 years 5 months
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