# Tong Wu

> Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn.

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tongwu

Backend engineer

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer - Information Security @ LinkedIn
Jan 2022 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Senior Backend Engineer @ Patreon
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ UnitedMasters
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked with Python and React to deliver high visibility features for the music distribution web application in small teams of 3-5 people
• Worked across the stack, with a heavy focus on back-end to deliver and maintain account authentication and oAuth related features.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Fond, Inc.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
• Worked with scrum teams to deliver and lead development of features across the stack with a focus on back-end development using Ruby on Rails and React
• Projects include but not limited to Stripe ACH integration, Slack bot for web app customers, and customer on-boarding features

### Full Stack Rails Engineer @ Fond, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineer @ 99Gamers
Jan 2014 – Jan 2016
• Lead a small team of full stack engineers in the development of the new 99Gamers home dashboard using PHP, Javascript, and HTML.
• Lead a small team in developing the back-end for TYDY, an iOS application for local trading using Rails running on Amazon's Elastic Beanstalk service.
• Developed the text chat system used in TYDY for user to user communication using Amazon's Web Services -- DynamoDB, Lambda, SQS, and SNS.
• Optimized image upload and loading in TYDY using Amazon Lambda, S3, and CloudFront to bring the loading speed of the main page and other heavily imaged pages down from several seconds to a fraction of the time
• Created the search functionality for TYDY including product indexing and search query functions using CloudSearch and Rails to implement location based searching for thousands of products.

### Junior Engineer @ Credit Karma
Jan 2013 – Jan 2014
• Worked in a scrum team to develop several key features of the Credit Karma product. Worked on both front and back end areas of projects all of which are currently being viewed and used by millions of people.
• Fetched data from a partner’s server and then processed that data into front facing user information regarding their credit history and credit accounts.
• Worked on the javascript heavy ‘application form’ section of the feature using methodical testing and jquery to ensure a smooth front facing user experience.

### Systems Validation Intern – Contractor @ FLIR Systems
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Santa Barbara, CA
• Maintained the nightly test scripts for the production cameras in a FLIR proprietary language similar to assembly.
• Worked on creating test modules used in validating the thermal camera software in C.

### Software Engineer Intern @ FileMaker
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Santa Clara, CA
• Worked on graphical user interface and data manipulation in C++.
• Improved software quality of the code by fixing development bugs
• Improved the software’s ease of use through the introduction of new features.


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Computer Science
UC Santa Barbara
Jan 2009 – Jan 2013


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tong-wu-0542b720

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Last updated: 2026-03-22