# Tony (Tong) Jia

> Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead at Google | Computer Engineer

Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/tonytongjia

I like computers.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer & Tech Lead @ Google
Jan 2024 – Present | Sunnyvale, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | Sunnyvale, California, United States
•	Control Plane, Looker, Cloud Data Analytics, Google Cloud Platform

### Software Engineer @ Instacart
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Python, SQL, Snowflake, Scala, Spark, Databricks
•	Ads Data Pipelines, Ads
•	Designing, implementing and expanding data pipelines to support new advertisement event types and
formats along with refactoring for performance, scalability and stability optimizations.
•	Spearheaded migration of data pipelines infrastructure from Snowflake SQL heavy workflows to Apache Spark on Databricks using Scala, with building of foundational pieces along with existing and new data flows.

### Software Developer @ Shopify
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Ottawa, Canada Area
•	Ruby on Rails, GraphQL, React, Redis, Memcached, MySQL, Splunk, Datadog
•	Billing Infrastructure, Billing, Money Foundations, Money
•	Championed multiple customer impacting projects, including adding support for bulk exportation of CSV billing statements, introducing a rearchitected and redesigned customer facing inactive admin interface, and adding a refactored Billling transaction handling backend integration, etc.
•	Lead or contributed to various performance and scalability focused projects, including adding and using an archive database, shop level parallelization of handling billing events, API caching on billing accounts, etc.

### Software Engineer - Backend @ Qlik
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | Ottawa, Canada Area
•	Go / Golang, Docker, Kubernetes, Helm, MongoDB, Redis, NATS / NATS Streaming
•	Champion and contributor of various RESTful microservices in an Enterprise SaaS product
•	Project lead on a successful 6-month Machine Learning NSERC Engage research project in collaboration with uOttawa
•	Project lead on bringing a message queue to Production in the tech stack utilizing NATS/NATS Streaming technology

### Backend Developer @ FarmLead
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Ottawa, Canada Area
•	Python, Flask, Marshmallow, SQLAlchemy, MySQL, Redis, Elasticsearch, SQS, S3
•	End-to-end ownership of the main backend RESTful API server powering native mobile and web apps.
•	Standardized request payload parsing and validation, data modularization and exception handling
•	Optimized various algorithms and caching flows for improved performance.
•	Utilized multithreading in various workflows with lower response latency for improved scalability.

### Software Developer @ 360pi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ottawa
•	Python, MongoDB, PostgreSQL, Celery, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Docker, S3, Sumo Logic
•	Created and refactored key data extraction, analysis and reporting algorithms
•	Designed and built back-end data pipelines and microservices for new products and frameworks
•	Front-end UI support for new APIs

### Software Designer (Co-op) @ Alcatel-Lucent
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 | Ottawa
•	Java, Bash Script, TCP/IP
•	Created a tool for the 5780 Dynamic Services Controller product to automate the process of configuring and certifying system environments, including hardware, software configuration, and network traffic flow

### Software Engineering - Backend (Co-op) @ Reflektion
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | San Francisco Bay Area
•	Python, Java, MongoDB, Cassandra, Redis, Kafka-Storm
•	Enhanced a data importing pipeline by developing reliable parsing logic, and expanded the data verification gateway
•	Expanded a real-time analytic framework built using Kafka-Storm, Redis, and Cassandra, including data extraction algorithms design, database configuration, and data transfer pipeline implementation


## Education
### Master of Science - MS in Computer Science
Georgia Institute of Technology

### Honours Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/tony-jia
- Website: https://github.com/ttjiaa

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Last updated: 2026-04-01