Tony Chong - CEO and Principal, Airwave Tech

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Work Background

BIOGRAF.aiChief Executive Officer

May. 2023Remotehttps://biograf.ai

WeaveworksPrincipal Solutions Architect

Dec. 2021 - Jan. 2023Washington, United StatesHelping the enterprise with its digital transformation, from code to cloud.

500 StartupsMentor

Jan. 2021Helping founders and startup leaders build their technical teams and engineering culture.

Magalix CorporationSolutions

Dec. 2020 - Dec. 2021Seattle, Washington, United StatesAcquired by WeaveWorks

PlunkHead of DevOps & Engineering

May. 2020 - Dec. 2020Bellevue, Washington, United States

Airwave TechCEO

Jul. 2019United States · Remote🚀 Leading Technological Excellence As the primary technology strategist and consultant at Airwave Tech, my realm spans orchestrating technological transformations, pioneering DevOps methodologies, and architecting solutions that drive operational efficiency and business agility. My role uniquely intertwines strategic leadership with hands-on technical expertise to lead organizations through their digital metamorphosis. I call this the Stack model. 🛠 Strategic Tech Leadership: Engaging with businesses to decipher their technological challenges, architecting strategic roadmaps, and providing visionary leadership to navigate through the complex landscapes of cloud computing, MLOps, and DevOps. 💼 Fractional CTO Services: Bridging the technical leadership gap by offering Fractional CTO services, where I align technological strategies and innovations with business objectives, ensuring IT operations are streamlined, scalable, and securely aligned with business goals. 🌐 DevOps Evangelist: Championing the integration of development and operations through innovative DevOps practices, ensuring rapid, reliable, and efficient delivery of technology solutions that align with business objectives. 🤖 MLOps & AI Strategy: Navigating the intricate world of Machine Learning operations to enable businesses to harness the power of AI and ML, ensuring models are not just developed but effectively deployed, monitored, and iterated in operational environments. 🛡 Cloud-Native Transformations: Architecting and implementing cloud-native solutions, ensuring organizations not only migrate to the cloud but fully harness its power to enhance agility, reduce costs, and innovate seamlessly. 🎯 Value-Driven Approach: With a relentless focus on delivering value, my role is not just to solve technological conundrums but to ensure that every technological investment and strategy propels the business toward its objectives. 🔗 Let’s Shape the Future, Together!

GawkBoxCo-Founder & CTO

Oct. 2016 - Jul. 2019Greater Seattle AreaHelping creators make a living from what they love to do!

VungleVP of Engineering

Apr. 2014 - Jun. 2016San Francisco

KwarterDevOps

Jun. 2013 - Apr. 2014San FranciscoKwarter is an interactive entertainment company that develops and publishes social mobile games, including Cards, Fancake, Fan Zone, Game On Football... They are made up of a diverse cast of characters who value teamwork, focus, coffee, and building things they can be proud of. They're channel surfers, gamers, thought leaders, worldtravelers, published writers, chefs, pilots, actors, and daredevils. During the week they come together to create innovative games.

IntuitStaff Data Engineer (contract)

Nov. 2012 - May. 2013Woodland Hills, CACloudera CDH4 HBase Configuration Management with Puppet Orchestration and Automation, Rundeck, Jenkins Cloud (AWS, IPC)

M-GOSr Systems Engineer (contract)

Jul. 2012 - Dec. 2012Burbank, Ca- Architecting cloud solutions for Data Services using AWS EC2 Hadoop and Elastic MapReduce clusters. Utilized monitoring and historical trending via Ganglia to analyze areas where we can cut costs - Cut AWS monthly costs by $25k/month by utilizing Auto-Scaling, Cloudwatch and Spot Instances. - Administer JBOSS server, including JVM tuning. Working closely with development teams to optimize architecture. - Tier 4 Support for Productions instances of the M-GO media application - Heavy bash scripting - Assisting the Operations Team by writing specific Puppet manifests to deal with application installations and related configuration files - Building out a Continuous Build, Continuous Delivery system using Jenkins, and Rundeck - Currently architecting end-to-end automated systems for various projects - Built and configured nagios for Devops - Configured logstash / logging architecture

Stratalux, Inc.Cloud Administrator (contract)

May. 2012 - Dec. 2012Los Angeles, CAUsing Chef to create and deploy configurations and software packages Interfacing with Rightscale for AWS Cloud based instances for 3rd party companies Using GitHub for source and version control management

ConfidentialContractor

Apr. 2012 - Jul. 2012North Hollywood, CAExamining the current architecture and day-to-day work flow to address any deficiencies, make recommendations based on those deficiencies and then implement those recommendations. Documenting all processes because there is NONE (inside joke). Administer company's Online Entities 50% LAMP 50% Proprietary Windows based applications Includes Apache Rewrites, F5 Configurations (iRules) Using Chef as a tool to help build an end to end automated process for Application Deployments and Configurations Lead Ops engineer in newly formed Drupal/Wordpress Initiatives

DreamWorks AnimationPlatform Engineer

Jun. 2011 - Apr. 2012Southern CaliforniaAdministering a multi-tiered Services Infrastructure consisting of Weblogic, Squid Caches, Apache, F5 load balancers and Oracle RAC databases. Serving a role as Technical Project Manager to coordinate efforts between development and engineering teams as they move their Next Generation Lighting Tool from Alpha code to Release Candidate Currently developing standard practices and procedures with Next Generation Development teams as they convert their animation tools from C++ to Java Established transaction and throughput benchmarks for each layer of the Service Infrastructure stack, including Oracle SOA suite, Oracle OSB, and individual Weblogic instances.Implemented JVM fine tuning changes based on standardized Load Testing, using tools such as Jmeter, ApacheBench and soapUI Performed “bake offs” of Nginx vs Apache Established procedures for moving Dreamworks Content Management system to Amazon Web Service EC2 instances, with an EBS backed store Established procedures for instantiating Weblogic 11g Instance to Amazon Web Services Serving as lead engineer to a newly created Hadoop project. Currently building out Puppet Enterprise 2.0 for automated artifact deployments and Weblogic domain creation

Edmunds.comPlatform Engineer

Jun. 2007 - Jun. 2011Santa Monica, CASubject Matter expert in areas of Edmunds Publishing Service, Data Warehousing, Leads Inventory, and Edmunds.com redesign infrastructure. A driving force in Edmunds' adoption of a Dev-Ops methodology. Designed and administered Edmunds 1st Generation message publishing bus powered by Oracle BPEL and Oracle ESB. Migrated Edmunds 1st Gen Publishing to EPS 2.0 to use open source technologies such as ActiveMQ and JMS. Implemented and supported Data Warehousing needs by utilizing Cloudera's Hadoop stack. Included in this stack are HBASE, oozie, and Netezza. Introduced Puppet to assist with configuration and application deployments, treating infrastrcutre-as-code. Worked closely with development teams to scale revenue impacting message publishing (Car inventory) from 2 million to 10 million. Continued performance enhancements to meet business owner SLA requirements. Partnered with Database Administrators to identify areas requiring optimization. Administered application deployments on Weblogic Servers.

Edmunds.comSr. Systems Administrator

Jun. 2006 - Jun. 2007Built, migrated and administered the Corporate Windows infrastructure, including services such as Active Directory, Group Policies, ISA 2006, multi-node Clustered Exchange server, and SQL Databases. Migrated Legacy Edmunds Windows Domain to a new Domain in a new physical space. Project included seemless migration of desktop profiles, roaming profiles, and Outlook profiles to a new Exchange server. Virtualized Services using VMWARE ESX 3.0, by repurposing legacy HP Sans and Dell Servers. Administered corporate applications such as Confluence and Jira.

CBS CorporationSystems Administrator

Nov. 2005 - Jun. 2006Supported server side migration during a company split. Assisted in Data Center design and administration.

Beverly HospitalNetwork Manager

Nov. 1999 - Nov. 2005Montebello, CAAll aspects of technology applicable to healthcare, under the guidance of HIPAA. 4 Direct Reports Responsibilities included corporate network and infrastructure administration, API Timecard Systems, Active Directory, Exchange, Microsoft SMS 2.0, Microsoft SQL Server, Disaster Recovery, HIPAA Compliance