# Lordique Fok

> Lead Software Engineer at Airtop

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/lordique

## Work Experience
### Lead Software Engineer @ Airtop
Jan 2024 – Present
Airtop (fka Switchboard) provides intelligent browser automation for AI agents, enabling seamless web interaction, including login, navigation, and data extraction from any site, even those requiring complex authentication processes. With features like natural-language instructions, human-in-the-loop integration, high-performance scalability, and robust AI framework support, Airtop simplifies the development and deployment of AI-powered agents, making it an essential tool for AI-driven projects that require dynamic web interaction.”

### Lead Software Engineer @ Switchboard
Jan 2021 – Jan 2024 | New York, New York, United States
- Architected and implemented a customized orchestration system and push-button CI for a low-level system with unique scaling requirements.
- Disaggregated monolith AWS account into different development environments by writing infra-as-code to allow cost analysis, cost caps, and RBAC, across dev, staging, and production.
- Designed, developed, and released microservice for tracking and distributing real-time user data.
- Instituted and maintained our on-call system by setting up monitoring and alerts, writing an incident-response playbook, and training all engineers on how to de-escalate and triage issues.
- Led team of 5 platform engineers by setting technical direction, prioritizing projects, and providing guidance on design documents.

### Backend Senior Software Engineer @ Moat
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | Greater New York City Area
- Performed large-scale migration of zero-downtime, low-latency, multi-region backend service from fixed clusters of Python servers running on hundreds of AWS EC2s to an autoscaling, multi-region, dockerized deployment in AWS EKS.
- Created automated tooling to perform automatic regional failover and traffic redistribution, in order to maintain tight margins on low latency, high availability service SLAs.
- Led a cross-national team in performing and verifying a large-scale migration of a pipeline containing thousands of lines of live NGINX code to a maintainable, scalable, testable Golang service.

### Full Stack Developer @ Sumo Logic
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Redwood City, California
- Headed development of a new interface for data and pattern discovery in Sumo Logic's metrics product.
- Developed novel data hierarchical induction techniques for structured metrics data, enhancing data analysis capabilities.
- Developed and user-tested highly successful, intuitive novel data visualizations for structured metrics data.
- Facilitated communication to coordinate development efforts across cross-continental teams.

### Frontend Developer @ Sumo Logic
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Redwood City, California
- Coded and shipped the most-requested customer suggestions for Sumo Logic dashboards, the main customer-facing interface
- Reduced Sumo Logic’s frontend technical debt and user experience design debt
- Wrote an open-source plugin that allowed Sumo Logic’s customers to use the Sumo Logic backend with a popular open-source frontend framework, Grafana

### Full Stack Developer @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Weston, Florida
- Created a platform to exponentially speed up Ultimate Software’s mobile testing by going from
testing one device at a time to simultaneously testing many devices with different operating systems
and manufacturers
- Designed and implemented project architecture using XCode, Node.js, Swift, Mongo DB, and Java
- Managed Agile flow for the project team
- Demoed platform in front of entire tester population at Ultimate HQ

### Software Engineering Researcher @ Space Propulsion Lab
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Wrote Python programs to maximize laser efficiency in the thruster manufacturing process, cutting
laser usage costs by 20%
- Designed algorithms to automatically generate computer aided designs, reducing manual labor hours
and resulting in processing time reduction by 500%

### Program Coordinator @ World Animal Net
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
- Planned campaign strategy for campaign against glueboard use in Massachusetts
- Documented use of existing technologies for effective pest control practices
- Created multiple websites using Joomla, Nationbuilder, and Adobe Dreamweaver
- Designed posters and pamphlets for campaign outreach

### UI/UX Researcher @ MIT Media Lab
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | 75 Amherst Street, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Created a ‘smart’ bicycle lock to enable a peer-to-peer bike sharing system in Cambridge that provides
research data about commuters’ commute habits and challenges
- Designed and machined lock to be modular, user-friendly, and weather-proof
- Performed user testing for lock and analyzed user feedback

### MIT Tech Caller @ MIT Annual Fund
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | 7 Massachusetts Avenue, Bldg. W31, Cambridge, MA 02139
- Cold-called alumni to raise funds (over $3500 per month) for MIT
- Awarded Highest Yield per Call for Fiscal Year ending 2014: 80% of calls resulted in donations
- Have established long-term connections with several alumni through calling


## Education
### Master's Degree in Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Jan 2014 – Jan 2017


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/lordique
- Website: https://lordique.github.io/

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Last updated: 2026-04-01