Howard Fong
Engineer at Instacart
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolHoward Fong is a resourceful software engineer with a decade of experience building scalable web and backend systems across startups and enterprise teams, currently contributing at Instacart from Cupertino. He brings deep hands-on expertise in Python, REST, functional JavaScript and J2EE, with a track record of shipping core microservices, background agents and performance-optimized dashboards for products at odrive, Oracle and Lockheed Martin. Howard pairs client-facing tact with strong product instincts—leading integrations, migrations and feature work such as modernizing legacy flight-test and parts-tracking systems and improving developer-facing frameworks. An active contributor to open-source GTK projects, he’s enhanced file manager UX (busy spinners, loop-device support and clearer volume-unlock errors), reflecting attention to both backend reliability and end-user experience.
11 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Technology Management, BS, Computer Science and Engineering, Technology Management at University of California, Davis
Chinese
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Github Skills (5)
c1710
file-manager10
file-management10
gtk10
c1110
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
GNOME/gtk
Jul 2018 - Apr 2019
Read-only mirror of https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:11 commits in 9 months
Contributions summary:Howard primarily focused on enhancing the GTK+ Places Sidebar. They implemented features such as showing a busy spinner during mount operations and added support for loop devices. Moreover, the user improved error messages related to unlocking volumes and added TCRYPT options. These changes demonstrate a focus on improving the functionality and user experience of the file manager interface within the GTK+ environment.
gnomegtk
segfault3/udisks
Sep 2017 - May 2020
The UDisks project provides a daemon, tools and libraries to access and manipulate disks, storage devices and technologies.
Contributions:44 pushes, 7 branches in 2 years 7 months
technologiesudisksdaemonlinuxstorage
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