Tom King

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Senior Software Engineer, Ayala Corporation - WebSockets · Go · low-latency systems

Ayala Corporation
Sydney, Australia · AEST (UTC+10)
8+ years experience
Tsinghua University
English
Co-founder
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Overview

Based in Sydney. I work on real-time systems at Ayala Corporation. Shipped 25 launches on the real-time team without a rollback. Moved 89% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident. Most at home with Elixir and Go.

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  • People who want to build this with me
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Skills
Erlang/OTPGoElixirlow-latency systemsWebSocketsRedis
Co-founderLooking for a co-founder
closes in 3 months

Looking for a design-minded co-founder for vendor onboarding for kirana stores

The idea
Vendor onboarding for kirana stores
Stage
Customer interviews
I bring
8 years in real-time systems
Looking for
Operator who has scaled a team
Commitment
Part-time to start
Location
Sydney or remote

I bring 8 years of real-time systems (currently Ayala Corporation). Ideally you've built ML systems in production. Full-time from day one.

Sydney, Australiawebsocketsredisgo
Open

Experience

  1. Senior Software Engineer
    Apr 2023 - Present
    Ayala Corporation · 3 yr 6 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Moved 94% of real-time traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Grew the real-time team from 5 to 39 engineers.
  2. Software Engineer
    Dec 2020 - Feb 2023
    Petronas · 2 yr 2 mo · Full-time · Sydney, Australia
    • Brought on-call pages for real-time down from 28 a week to 3.
    • Reduced cloud spend on real-time by 18% in two quarters.
  3. Software Engineer
    Oct 2018 - Dec 2020
    Lenovo · 2 yr 2 mo · Contract · Sydney, Australia
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 28 minutes to under 3.

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Education

  1. Tsinghua University
    BEng, Information Technology
    2013 - 2017

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