Zachary Tong
Owner at Breaking Taps, LLC
Milton, Vermont, United States
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Top SchoolZachary Tong is a seasoned software engineer and founder with 14 years of experience building and leading backend systems, most recently as Area Technical Lead for Analytics & Geo at Elastic where he maintained core Elasticsearch aggregation and geospatial frameworks and helped ship features like Rollups. He authored the original elasticsearch-php client, co-authored "Elasticsearch – The Definitive Guide," and contributed to the flagship elastic/elasticsearch repo, improving aggregations, test frameworks, and new features such as rare_terms. Comfortable moving between code, architecture, and customer-facing training/support, he combines deep distributed systems expertise with hands-on PHP and backend development. Earlier in his career he applied rigorous lab discipline as a molecular neurobiologist, giving him experimental rigor and a practical grasp of data-driven problem solving. Now running Breaking Taps, LLC from Vermont, he pairs open-source pedigree with entrepreneurial execution.
14 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's of Science Biology, Bachelor's of Science Biology at Rensselaer Polytechnic InstituteWilliam Mason High School
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Github Skills (25)
back-end-development10
apidoc10
testing10
amazon-elasticsearch10
java10
aggregation-framework10
javas10
elasticsearchquery10
php10
api10
aws-elasticsearch10
elasticsearch10
full-text-search10
elasticsearch-api10
guzzle9
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
elastic/elasticsearch-php
May 2013 - Jan 2019
Official PHP client for Elasticsearch.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:1575 commits, 198 PRs, 565 pushes in 5 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's contributions primarily involved enhancing the Elasticsearch PHP client, specifically in the areas of connection management and API functionality. They implemented connection pools, connection factories and a new Guzzle connection class. The user also refactored the search and other endpoints to use these new features.
elasticsearchphp
elastic/elasticsearch
Jun 2013 - Jul 2020
Free and Open Source, Distributed, RESTful Search Engine
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:31 reviews, 611 commits, 416 PRs in 7 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Zachary's commits primarily revolve around enhancing the functionality and robustness of the Elasticsearch codebase. Their contributions include addressing edge cases in the RollupStart endpoint and improving support for unmapped fields within the AggregatorTestCase. Further, they made improvements to aggregation implementations, and added new features like the `rare_terms` aggregation. Additionally, the user worked on improving the test framework and code-related serialization.
restrestfulsearch-engineelasticsearchjava
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