Thompson Tong

Software Engineer + Student

Hi, I'm Thompson, a 21 year old software engineer with 7 years of experienceOld Site / First Build CLICK TO OPEN ↵ building and shipping production software at scale. I've lived in 8 different cities across 3 continentsPlaces / 8 Cities 8 cities across Asia, Europe and North America. Open the map to see them all. CLICK TO OPEN MAP ↵, which has given me a broad perspective on technology and problem-solving. I had just completed my placement at AmazonAmazon (Veeqo) / Front-End Sep 2025 to Sep 2026. Cut frontend build times by 82% by designing the monolith-to-microservices migration on a website with 50,000+ sellers. CLICK TO OPEN ↵, and finishing my final year at the University of Bath, where I studied CS + AI. Previously, I worked on LLMOps at MSDMSD / MLOps Jun to Jul 2024. Deployed a RAG pipeline that cut document processing time by 48%. CLICK TO OPEN ↵ and was a programming research assistant for CRIISPUniversity of Bath / CRIISP Aug 2024 to Sep 2025. Cut SEM creation time by 30% for scientists modeling pain perception. CLICK TO OPEN ↵ 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.

AGE: 21.5 YRS