Tom Luong

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Brief Profile

Tom Luong is a problem solver, currently working for Proofpoint, a leading cybersecurity company from Sunnyvale, California. Prior to Proofpoint, he held senior engineering positions in Technology, Financial, Education and Media companies.

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With more than 13 years of technology industry experience, he can unlock your company potential and advance your business. Email him to discuss potential work. When he is not writing software, he relaxes.

Tom received his honour bachelor's degree from McMaster University, where he studied computer science and mathematics. He resides in Toronto with his wife, children and their dog.

Work Experience

2020 Now Senior Software Engineer Proofpoint
About Proofpoint

Proofpoint, Inc. is a leading cybersecurity company that protects organizations’ greatest assets and biggest risks: their people. With an integrated suite of cloud-based solutions, Proofpoint helps customers around the world stop targeted threats, safeguard their data, and make their users more resilient against cyber attacks.

HANDS-ON
  • AD Synchronization
  • Azure AD Enterprise Identity Service
  • Production Support
PROJECTS
  • Log Retention: Compression and Upload
  • Chrome Extension for Jenkins
  • QA Automation
TECHNOLOGIES
  • C++ Java C# SQL
  • Powershell Bash
2018 2020 Lead Software Engineer Cox Automotive Canada
About Cox Automotive Canada

Cox Automotive Canada is an organization that tranforms the way the world buys, sells, owns and uses cars through industry-leading Inventory and Digital Retailing solutions.

  • Delivered online custom automobile lending solutions to most Canadian banks
  • Ensured proper and trouble-free production deployment with pre and post-production planning
  • Led a team of professionals to achieve milestones on product roadmap
HANDS-ON
  • Microservices Architecture
  • Secure File Transfer
  • Team and Project Management
PROJECTS
  • Message with Attachment
  • Custom Auto-approved Deals
  • Fraud Detection
TECHNOLOGIES
  • C# .NET Core SQL
  • Angular React CSS
  • OracleDB NServiceBus RabbitMQ
2016 2018 Senior Software Engineer Q4
About Q4

Q4 helps clients achieve their IR goals and build trust and confidence in the capital markets, giving them a competitive advantage as they compete for capital. They offer a full stack of solutions and services public companies need to solve their most pressing challenges.

  • Signed big tech clients by enhancing app security, audited by independent third party
  • Increased company profit by saving operating cost, boosting app performance during peak times
  • Cut vendor costs and reduced their dependency by more affordable flexible in-house solutions
  • Interviewed, reviewed and on-boarded new hires for the team and other teams
HANDS-ON
  • CMS for Investor Relations
  • Compliance Security
  • Cloud Computing and Caching
PROJECTS
  • Custom website builder
  • AWS ETL Solution
  • UI Overhaul
TECHNOLOGIES
  • C# .NET MVC AWS Lambda
  • Angular HTML CSS
  • MSSQL NServicebus nginx
2014 2016 Senior Software Engineer Yangaroo
About Yangaroo

Yangaroo develops secure digital distribution platforms that would deliver music and videos to broadcasters and other global media outlets. They streamline awards programs to reduce time for event organizers, judges, and auditors; custom submission criteria and voting/judging rules across multiple rounds; enable online access to media anywhere and anytime.

HANDS-ON
  • Onion Architecture
  • Data Submission
  • Secure Online Payment
PROJECTS
  • Submission Rule Validator
  • Video and Audio Streaming
  • UI Localization
TECHNOLOGIES
  • C# .NET MVC
  • AngularJS HTML CSS
  • MSSQL Dapper
2009 2013 Software Engineer Pearson

Built a web-based multilingual School System for school boards to manage teachers and students including smart class scheduling, attendance tracking and multilingual report printing

HANDS-ON
  • Custom UI Components
  • Data Collection
  • Data Reporting
PROJECTS
  • Full Product Migration to .NET
  • English and Arabic Reports
  • Smart Course Scheduling
TECHNOLOGIES
  • C# .NET WebForms
  • HTML CSS JavaScript jQuery
  • MSSQL JasperReport

Previous Projects

Secure File Transfer
Deliver confidential information from consumer's browser to bank's backend systems
  • Data encrypted at rest and in transit
  • Customizable upload service to meet various backend needs
Generic Filtering Engine
Show correct documents to users based on regulation rules at run-time
  • Allowed banks to change logic quickly and efficiently
  • Increased product quality yet reduced support resources
AWS ETL Solution
Process thousands of press release XML files daily
  • Delivered a new AWS solution using lambda and PostgreDB just in weeks
  • Completely scalable with minimum operation expenses