# Rona Chong > Senior Software Engineer at CENTEGIX Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/rona ## Work Experience ### Senior Software Engineer @ CENTEGIX Jan 2025 – Present ### Senior Software Engineer @ Grove Collaborative Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States * Implemented event bus reporting library for client side analytics * End to end implementation of toolchain to product statically built/server-side-rendered web assets, delivering a performance boost of up to 80% * Led planning and migration of Grove's Nuxt 2 web app to Nuxt 3; umd to esm; js to ts * Refactored critical service worker with the addition of an end to end testing layer * Overhauled staging processes to reflect cross-repo builds ### Software Engineer @ Grove Collaborative Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 ### Software Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 Software Engineer, Web App Team | April 2020 - February 2021 ● Implemented and shipped key UI features in React and Redux for a new web collaboration / project management product. ● Established product and performance client-side logging for said product. ● Led discussions around testing; developed an automated testing policy for the team which was later adopted by QA for the broader organization. ● Served as the team’s DRI on cross-team bug bashes and developed comprehensive manual test suites. Software Engineer, Desktop App Team | June 2019 – April 2020 ● As frontend engineering DRI, led planning, technical design and milestone delivery for a tasks prototype in the Dropbox app. This experiment was instrumental in informing product strategy for the new collaboration and project management product. ● Implemented and shipped features in React and Redux exposing file and collaboration metadata to increase user awareness of collaboration. ● Audited and revamped outdated error handling in a major overhaul of user messaging in the desktop app. ● Served as tech lead oncall during and after production incidents; mitigated incidents in delicate cherry-picking procedures. ● Served as mentor and speaker for the Ignite apprenticeship program as a former apprentice. Software Engineer, Databases Team | April 2018 – June 2019 ● Automated graceful database splits for the team’s 1000+ database instances, based on capacity metrics ● Developed advanced CI/CD tooling for the team using Dropbox’s new pipelines deployment service in a pioneering project, driving early adoption and setting example for advanced usage. ● Assisted implementation of the next generation of the binlog backup service. ● Served as tech lead on call for various critical incidents, recovering binlogs for specific shards on multiple occasions. ### Training in Fullstack Software Engineering: Specialization @ Holberton School Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 I elected to pursue independent study at Holberton School by building a proof of concept web app for viewing, sharing and hosting web comics. Stack: Nginx, Uwsgi, Graphene-Django, React, Apollo, Redux, Relay, Docker Swarm, EC2 and Postgres hosted on RDS. ### Apprentice Site Reliability Engineer @ Dropbox Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 In this apprenticeship, I was pushed by myself and others to develop core foundational competencies for software engineering. Ask me about them! Generally happy to have discussions around what it means to be a good software engineer. Other responsibilities included: * Leading weekly meetings on database operations and incident metrics * Assisting the team with migration of codebase to newer versions of internal libraries and tooling * Improving the visibility of database operations to the high-level managers at Dropbox * Increasing the durability of user data at Dropbox by remediating a known issue in a recovery process * Assessing and identifying bottlenecks in regular database operations so as to improve availability * Organizing and hosting an expository panel on SRE @ Dropbox to 40 engineering students of nontraditional educational backgrounds from around the Bay, not unlike myself ### Fullstack Software Engineer Training: Generalization @ Holberton School Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | 98 Battery St., San Francisco Holberton School is a project-based alternative to college for the next generation of software engineers: www.holbertonschool.com Projects: Double Lariat ( Python / VPython ) A game incorporating linear and spherical collisions written in Python and rendered with VPython. Holberton-Garneau Joint Learning Exercise ( Ruby / Ruby Koans / SF OpenData ) Organization of a full-day meetup including a live coding session and data-viz challenge for 40 attendees. Twitter Clone ( HTML / CSS / Javascript / PHP ) A mock Twitter clone/social media website featuring dynamic content-loading via AJAX requests and responsive web design. Basic Shell ( C / Valgrind ) A functional shell with forked processes and built-in commands. Neural-Style Container (Deep Learning / Docker / Python ) A Docker image and basic UI for automated deployment and usage of jcjohnson’s neural-style program. AirBnB Clone ( React.js / Webpack / Node.js / Memcached / MySQL / NoSQL / Flask / Peewee ) A clone of AirBnB implementing a rest API, MySQL database, OAuth2, and image storage. In-progress. System Administration ( PagerDuty / Wavefront / Apache / iptables / bind9 / Capistrano ) On-call maintenance of multiple websites on load-balanced servers and self-hosted nameservers. ### Summer Intern @ Scripps College - Information Technology Jan 2013 – Jan 2015 Take phone calls, greet and direct individuals to staff, assist walk-in visitors, deliver key presentations, set-up computer systems and process new students with earnest and professional demeanor. Generate positive experiences for students, faculty and staff through quick identification of needs and proper departmental responses. Closely collaborate with user support staff on major projects such as processing, preparing and deploying new equipment, creating new user documents, and generating new departmental procedures. Carefully monitor the multiple and shifting priorities of the department to better anticipate the needs of user support staff. Unbox, image and configure annual shipments of 70+ new computer systems within 2-­week timeframe Train new interns in departmental procedures and delegate ticket items ### Audio Visual Intern @ Scripps College - Information Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### Digital Imaging and Archival Assistant @ Scripps College - Information Technology Jan 2012 – Jan 2014 ### Graphic Design Intern @ Chameleon Creative Group Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 ### Studio Assistant @ Studio of Alan Blizzard, painter Jan 2011 – Jan 2012 ## Education ### Holberton School Jan 2015 – Jan 2017 ### Sociology Scripps College Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### Sociology Scripps College Jan 2011 – Jan 2015 ### CSU Dominguez Hills ### Modesto Junior College ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/rona-chong-15b167b6 --- Source: https://flows.cv/rona JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/rona/resume.json Last updated: 2026-03-22