Tony Jin

Co-Founder & CTO

Wormhole Labs

May 2023 - Current (3 years 2 months)

Wormhole Labs is a software company that specializes in blockchain interoperability. We contribute open source code to the Wormhole messaging protocol, which dramatically simplifies building applications that use multiple blockchains. We work on some of the hardest problems in blockchain technology with a lean and remote-first team. We're hiring for low ego, high agency, customer obsessed, and collaborative talent—please reach out!

Engineering Manager

Jump Crypto

Oct 2022 - Aug 2023 (11 months)

I helped the talented engineering teams contributing to Wormhole at Jump Crypto do their best work. Wormhole (https://wormhole.com/) is a decentralized interoperability protocol for multiple blockchain ecosystems. The future of blockchain technology will exist in a multi-chain world in which each blockchain is optimized for its own set of use cases, much like how traditional cloud compute services are optimized for different use cases. Wormhole aims to make this multichain world easier to navigate for both end users and developers.

Director of Engineering

Twitch

Oct 2018 - May 2022 (3 years 8 months)

Amazon Interactive Video Service (IVS) is an AWS service that allows developers to easily leverage the low-latency highly-distributed live video platform that powers Twitch in their own applications. I led the IVS Video Clients team of managers, iOS/Android/C++/web engineers, and QA/QE contractors. The team was responsible for the video player SDK that enabled low-latency playback and the broadcast SDK that improved broadcasting quality of service for Twitch and IVS. These SDKs were used in Android, iOS, and web applications of all sizes (including Twitch's first party applications). The team sat at an intersection of consumer and enterprise software, building both for the largest live video entertainment platform in the world with over

Staff Software Engineer & Manager

Box

Feb 2017 - Aug 2018 (1 year 7 months)

I led the Preview and Elements team at Box. Box Preview allows users to securely view their documents and media files on desktop and mobile web and is the most used product feature at Box, serving over 50 million previews a week during my time. Preview is built with ES6 JavaScript, Babel & Webpack and powers content viewing in the Box web experience and in various platform offerings. Box Elements are modular React components that developers can use to easily embed parts of the Box web experience into their own custom applications. Using these components, platform developers can view, browse, choose, upload, and interact with their content on Box. We open sourced both projects: https://github.com/box/box-content-preview https://github.com/

Senior Software Engineer

Box

Apr 2016 - Feb 2017 (11 months)

As a high velocity team of two, we rebuilt Box Preview as a modular JavaScript library using the public Box API, paving the way for modern ES6 JavaScript at Box. I also built out the first version of Box Annotations: https://blog.box.com/blog/annotations-beta.

Software Engineer

Box

Jul 2013 - Apr 2016 (2 years 10 months)

Full stack engineer on projects like sharing & collaboration, A/B testing, visual redesigns of navigation and Preview, and the initial iterations of Box Metadata.

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