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My name is Tony Tam. A little personal history. I’m of Chinese descent. I immigrated with my parents to San Francisco when I was 10 years old. Not speaking a word of English, I struggled in school until I was in sixth grade when everything clicked. I attended Presideo High School in SF, then to the best high school in San Francisco Lowell High and then to U.C. Berkeley for my bachelors in Computer Science.
Now my work history. I have only held 2 jobs out of college. One was with Silicon Graphics from 1995 to 1999. The second is with Yahoo! from 1999 to now (2010 as of this writing)
At Yahoo!, I joined the Yahoo! News team of one engineer (Brad Clawsie). Brad was a very practical programmer, taught me a lot about what mattered and what didn’t. Yahoo! News was running on 4 web servers running on a custom templating language known internally as HTMLforms. I did a lot of mysql, perl, C code to keep our news pages running fast. Brad handed over the site to me in about a year.
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Fast forward to June 2009. Yahoo! News team has now grown to 30+ engineers. I was asked by my director and VP to rebuild the backend of all Media sites to run on cloud computing, replace everything from US News and 6 other code bases in the company running news sites around the world. [more time elapse] On Oct 18, 2010, we have launched an alpha version of the Global News site build on cloud computing. Y! News: An inside look at rebuilding the largest news site on the web I also was promoted to Senior Principal Architect of Yahoo!.
This blog I hope to share some of my professional experiences, my passion for raising a happy child and my passion for life.
I hope to have a positive influence on the world through my actions and words.
My personal interests includes
- making awesome latte drinks at home
- playing badminton and tennis
- being a minimalists
- traveling to Paris once a year with my daughter
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Senior Principal Architect, Technical Yahoo! at Yahoo! | profile on LinkedIn
Hi Tony!!
I came across your LinkedIn profile, and you look like a great match for quite a few career opportunities that I’m working on with some great companies in the SF Bay Area! I’m going to guess you’re probably not actively looking for new career opportunities right now – that’s pretty common for most of the people that I work with. Even if this is true, I’d love to speak with you more about what I’m working on because it never hurts to be aware of career advancement opportunities that exist!
There are a lot of amazing opportunities opening up, and companies are willing to do whatever it takes to get great talent! We work with the hottest startups and industry leaders. Check out my manager’s profile on LinkedIn, where you can how we’re well connected in the industry (one of his most recent recommendations is from Facebook cofounder Dustin Moskovitz), http://www.linkedin.com/in/mstrassberg. Feel free to link in with me, http://www.linkedin.com/in/arianaforgerson!
What’s the best time and phone number to reach you to discuss this further?
Best Regards,
Ariana Forgerson
SkyRocket Ventures
(650) 494-3400 ext. 305
ariana@skyrocketventures.com
Thanks Ariana for taking the time to contact me. I am very happy with the position I’m in now.
I’ll take a look at the links you sent me and get back to you