Tony Sun
Big picture, product-focused engineer with deep technical experience and excellent communication skills. Experienced in startups like Crimson Education, and large SaaS companies like Zendesk and Pluralsight. I am also the co-founder of bluprint.co.nz, a property development marketplace in New Zealand.
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Courseau is an innovative instructional design platform that allows you to take your existing information sources, give it a learning ...
Courseau is an innovative instructional design platform that allows you to take your existing information sources, give it a learning outcome and turn it into a course. Our team is small and experienced, so I focus on prioritizing impactful work that improves our value proposition for our customers.
- Designed and architected full stack changes required to enable organization level course ownership where only individual level ownership was allowed before.
- Wrote and deployed Postgres database migrations, creating policies and database functions to preserve proper roles and responsibilities.
- Updated Remix app to handle all combinations and permutations of organization versus individual level course ownership.
I co-founded a property development marketplace for New Zealand - created a product roadmap, architected the application and backend, ...
I co-founded a property development marketplace for New Zealand - created a product roadmap, architected the application and backend, then built and deployed the web application.
- Researched and implemented best tools for the product, deciding to build the application with Sveltekit and backend with Supabase due to developer experience, browser performance and data analysis requirements.
- Collaborated with non-technical co-founder to set realistic but achievable product timelines.
- Made strategic decisions balancing time to market with technical debt and scaling concerns.
- Fostered team growth, beginning with training a product designer with Tailwind and a development environment and training marketing lead to use a CMS.
On the search and discovery team, I worked on user profiles, certifications, and a new recommendations service. The architecture was f...
On the search and discovery team, I worked on user profiles, certifications, and a new recommendations service. The architecture was fully serverless in AWS; this centered around DynamoDB and Lambdas.
As one of the senior engineers on the team I designed a profile integration pipeline, paired with junior engineers and took the lead in building features. In addition I developed a collaborative engineering culture to boost morale for our recently acquired company.
- Architected profile backfill solution using DynamoDB Streams and Lambdas to integrate A Cloud Guru and Pluralsight profiles.
- Spearheaded segment tracking for experimenting with recommendation placements.
- Established an engineering book club to foster continuous learning and collaboration.
- Hosted Q&A sessions with developer relations to promote engineering culture.