Hi, my name is Thompson TongThompson Tong / Terminal Go to terminal. CLICK TO OPEN ↵

I'm a 21 year old software engineer with 7 years of experienceOld Site / First Build building and shipping production software at scale. I've lived in 8 different cities across 3 continentsPlaces / 8 Cities Hong Kong, Taipei, Chengdu, Shanghai, Livingston, Singapore, Bath, and Swansea. , which has given me a broad perspective on technology and problem-solving. I had just completed my placement at Amazon, and finishing my final year at the University of Bath, where I studied CS + AI. Previously, I worked on LLMOps at MSD and was a programming research assistant for CRIISP at the University of Bath.

I'm deeply curious about how systems work from first principlesEthos / Continuous Learning Standing on the shoulders of giants: read the principle and the evidence behind it. CLICK TO OPEN ↵, whether that's foundational technology or bleeding-edge tooling. Understanding what's happening under the hood means I get far more out of AI-assisted development than most.

I built gofin↗, wren↗, t-industries↗, and tictactoe↗.