Xin Tong
Software Engineer at Facebook
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolXin Tong is a software engineer and compiler-focused developer with 10 years of experience, based in Seattle. With a strong foundation from a BEng and MEng in Computer Engineering (specializing in Computer Architecture) from the University of Toronto, Xin blends low-level systems thinking with practical backend engineering. He contributes to high-profile open-source projects such as Swift's core Foundation libraries, where he improved CharacterSet handling and UnicodeScalar validation to align with language evolution (SE-0128) and strengthened tests. Known for careful input validation and cross-platform considerations, he brings rigorous, architecture-minded problem solving to production code.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (3)
swift10
foundation10
unit-testing9
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
swiftlang/swift-corelibs-foundation
Jul 2016 - Jul 2016
The Foundation Project, providing core utilities, internationalization, and OS independence
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:7 commits, 2 PRs, 4 pushes in 8 days
Contributions summary:Xin focused on modifying and improving the `Foundation` project, specifically related to CharacterSet functionality. They implemented changes to handle UnicodeScalar values, adapting the code to be failable for better input validation. The user also updated the code to align with SE-0128, impacting how character sets are defined and manipulated. Furthermore, the user made changes to the testing framework to ensure the correct functionality.
tvostranslationinternationalizationfoundationindependence
trentxintong/scripts
Sep 2015 - Jun 2016
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
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