Resume
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Basics
| Name | Brian Ton |
| [email protected] |
Experience
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2025.11 - Present Software Development Engineer
Pika Labs
I'm working on building next-gen AI video and social products!
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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!
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2024.06 - 2024.09 Software Development Engineer Intern
Workday
Worked on the Authentication Security team on observability and other projects.
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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.
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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.
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2021.12 - 2024.06 Computer Science Tutor
Breakout Mentors
Worked with 8 students to help them prepare for USACO Bronze and Silver contests.
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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
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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
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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
- 2021.04
Eagle Scout
Boy Scouts of America
- 2020.01
USACO Gold Division
USA Computing Olympiad
- 2020.01
NSA Stokes Scholarship Finalist
National Security Agency
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
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 |