Wolfram Rong
Senior Software Engineer at Rand McNally
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWolfram Rong is a Senior Software Engineer in Chicago with 11 years of experience building and modernizing web platforms across startups and established companies. He excels at incremental, pragmatic engineering—refactoring legacy monoliths into modular services, dramatically speeding up SQL queries, and raising test coverage to production-ready levels. He blends backend performance tuning (frequently achieving 100x improvements) with thoughtful front-end and tooling work, shipping features and internal apps that improve developer and customer workflows. Comfortable from GraphQL/TypeScript stacks to PHP-to-service migrations and observability platforms, he focuses on products people actually want to use rather than optimizing for metrics alone. Colleagues know him as a collaborative, user-and-maintainer‑empathetic engineer who turns messy legacy code into reliable, documented systems.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Industrial Engineering, Industrial Engineering at Georgia Institute of TechnologyUI & UX Design, UI & UX Design at DESIGNATION Labs
English, Chinese
Github Skills (18)
kss9
gulp9
gulp-plugin9
tabletop9
activecampaign8
stylesheets8
multiplayer7
react7
css6
notation6
javascript6
react-native6
wordpress-plugin5
networking5
plugin5
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
w74/wolfram74
May 2016 - Aug 2022
Personal portfolio site: http://wolfram74.com
Contributions:1 PR, 14 pushes, 2 branches in 6 years 4 months
javascript
w74/audiograph
Oct 2015 - Mar 2016
Contributions:11 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 5 months
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