Resume

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Basics

Name Brian Ton
Email [email protected]

Experience

  • 2025.11 - Present
    Software Development Engineer
    Pika Labs
    I'm working on building next-gen AI video and social products!
  • 2025.02 - 2025.11
    Software Development Engineer I
    Workday
    I worked on building distributed, scalable, fault-tolerant backend services supporting millions of logins for Workday users every day!
  • 2024.06 - 2024.09
    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Workday
    Worked on the Authentication Security team on observability and other projects.
  • 2023.06 - 2023.08
    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Walmart Global Tech
    Worked on the supplier data ingestion pipeline to improve data integrity and service resiliency.
  • 2022.06 - 2022.09
    Software Engineer Intern
    Breakout Mentors
    Expanded features on the customer portal, including Google Calendar integration, configurable timezones, and a new USACO student portal.
  • 2021.12 - 2024.06
    Computer Science Tutor
    Breakout Mentors
    Worked with 8 students to help them prepare for USACO Bronze and Silver contests.
  • 2021.09 - 2024.06
    Software Development Engineer Intern
    Mercury Alert
    Contributed to the entire stack (frontend, backend, embedded device) to bring a number of projects to life!

Education

  • 2021.09 - 2024.12

    La Jolla, CA

    B.S. Computer Science
    University of California, San Diego
    • Data Structures
    • Algorithms
    • Operating Systems
    • Databases
    • Cryptography
    • Recommender Systems
    • Artificial Intelligence
    • Theory of Computation
  • 2021.09 - 2024.12

    La Jolla, CA

    B.S. Mathematics
    University of California, San Diego
    • Abstract Algebra (Graduate)
    • Number Theory (Graduate)
    • Algebraic Geometry (Graduate)
    • Probability Theory (Graduate)
    • Real Analysis
    • Linear Algebra
    • Mathematical Statistics
    • Complex Analysis

Awards

Projects

  • 2024.12 - Present
    miniredis
    A mini version of Redis written in Go. Slightly than Redis in some situations. Not meant for production use.
  • 2021.02 - 2021.02
    TrAIner
    A cross-platform mobile app using React Native to track a user's exercises (ex. squats, jumping jacks, sit-ups) through the device camera using a KNN-classifier, while logging to a Flask REST API backend.
  • 2018.12 - 2019.08
    BRITON
    A chess engine based on MiniMax search & Alpha-Beta pruning using C++ (~2100 ELO).

Skills

Languages
Python
Java
Scala
Kotlin
C++
Go
C
R
LaTeX
SQL
HTML/CSS/Javascript
PromQL
Frameworks
Spring Boot
Play Framework
FastAPI
ReactJS
React Native
Flask
Django
JUnit
Tools
Git
Unix
AWS (S3, Cloudfront, Lambda, API Gateway, RDS, DynamoDB, Elastic Beanstalk)
Prometheus
Grafana
Docker
Kubernetes
Gradle