Hi, my name is Thompson Tong

I'm a 21 year old software engineer with 7 years of experience building and shipping production software at scale. I've lived in 8 different cities across 3 continents, 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 principles, 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.

Work

Amazon (Veeqo)

Front-End Engineer · Sep 2025 to Sep 2026

Cut frontend build times by 82% and page latency by 75%, shipping 5 React settings pages to 50,000+ sellers with zero rollbacks.

University of Bath CRIISP

Research Assistant · Aug 2024 to Sep 2025

Cut SEM creation time by 30% by rebuilding academic paper retrieval from Firebase.

MSD

MLOps Intern, GenAI · Jun 2024 to Jul 2024

Cut document processing time by 48% with a RAG pipeline processing 10,000 documents concurrently.

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Ethos

My objective function optimizes for global perspective, continuous learning, and impactful purpose.