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Willy Wong is listed as Manager, Database Platform Engineering at G-Research at G-Research, a with 708 employees, based in Rowland Heights, California, United States. AeroLeads shows a matched LinkedIn profile for Willy Wong.
Willy Wong previously worked as Manager, Database Platform Engineering at G-Research and Senior Manager, Database Reliability Engineering at The Walt Disney Company. Willy Wong holds Applied Mathematics Computer Science Ba from University Of California.
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Experienced Data Engineer with AI/ML experience, specializing in large scale data warehousing and production infrastructure. Specialization in all aspects of software engineering life cycle, from concept through delivery of next-generation applications and customizable solutions. Extensive experience in developing scalable distributed enterprise systems using NoSQL, AWS RDS, Aurora, MongoDB, Cassandra, RDBMS database technologies on both client/server and web-based environments. Proficient in architecting efficient ETL processes for OLTP and Data Warehouse. Passionate about leading high performing teams to deliver quality products and innovative solutions.
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Senior Manager, Database Reliability Engineering
• Re-engineer whole staff from DBA to DBREs with Scrum/OKR/Workboard practices and integrated developers the team. Successfully lead a team of 18 Senior DBA’s in 3 regions worldwide supporting 7 major business segments within Disney (Corporate, ESPN, ABC, Parks and Resorts, Shanghai, Consumer Products, Studios, Fox). Manage over 2K databases. Collaborate with Corp Dev teams and tools teams to deliver best breed of solutions to the organization.• Extended OneID to EMEA region by automation using Terraform to deploy RDS Aurora Global Database to Frankfurt, Ireland regions. Modernizing MyID/Keystone with MSSQL 2019 and new HP Gen 10 hardware.• Architected Modernization of Database As A Service(DBAAS) Platform based on Security, Reliability, Cost Optimization, Performance and Operational Excellence principals. Added Encryption at Rest and In transit, audit logging to Splunk and enforcement of DB IAM security policies. Cloud enabled OnDemand DB offerings to include RDS and Mongo Atlas. Automated DB deployments using Terraform and Ansible.• Expanded Archive Platform to archive Fox Peoplesoft, eBiz, JDE AS400/DB2 applications and added Oracle Cloud autonomous DB to hold archives. Front-end integration with Tableau.• Converted Netbackup long term storage solution to Rubrik.• Collaborated with Architecture and Global Security teams on Database Encryption Standards.• Enabled Mulesoft integration to Oracle DB hosting Intellectual Property Management and Contract Licensing Management systems.• Completed total shutdown and decommission of Fox/Natgeo data centers and Databases by migrating to Disney Global Network or to AWS.• Successfully migrated on premise Hyperion system to AWS RDS Oracle.• Designed SOX automation process with Sailpoint and WDesk systems.• Engage, evaluate new technology vendors : Dremio, Data Lake, CockroachDB, SingleStore, Enterprise DB, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, Autonomous/Exadata DB, HashiVault, Rancher Kubernetes, Percona PMM, Azure stack HCI
Manager, Database Services
Successfully lead a team of 11 Senior DBA’s in 3 regions worldwide supporting 6 major business segments within Disney. Manage over 2000 databases. Collaborate with Dev teams and tools teams to deliver best breed of solutions.Positive net total after expense for Year 2017. Achieved cost savings reduction with Annual Operating Plan AOP 2018/2019Improved operations for Fantasy football 2017/18 with resiliency with Always On Clusters handling 75k req/sec + 1.1 Billion http requests in one day with +3% YoY growth.Expanded capacity of Oracle Transport Management Logistic system to EMEA and China growth. Migrated from 11G to 12CGrew Demand DB DBaaS across 2 Data Center regions with 14% growth in one year.Scaled successfully 2017/18 March Madness traffic with HA and DR across from West to East Region supporting 40% YoY growth. Migrated to AWS RDS Aurora in 2019.Accomplished more than Four 9’s e-Commerce SLA for Disneystore.com 2016/17/18 BlackFriday and CyberMonday with Oracle RAC 11G. Successfully migrated to 12C in 2019.Work with various major Supplier and Support vendors, consolidated License, support maintenance.Engage, evaluate new technology vendors.Optimized MySQL with multi instances per server for Disney Shanghai Fastpass rollout 2018 and support migration to AliCloud 2019.Successfully lead the team to deploy solutions in the AWS Cloud with fully managed support services on RDS(MSSQL, Oracle), Aurora(MySQL) and migration to hybrid cloud infrastructure.Completed migration of monitoring and alerting functions from Solarwind to NewRelic, DatadogLead the team to automation with Chef, Cloud Formation, Autoscale. Practice Canoe Theory, Devops models and exercise S.M.A.R.T (specific, measurable, achievable, relevant, timely) for team building.Complete PCI, PII, SOX Compliance with Vormetric TDE, Imperva, Trend, Tanium, RedLock, CloudHealth tools and architect with AWS private VPC, Config, System Manger and Inspector services.
Staff Data Engineer
• As a NOSQL DBA, working in Distributed Data Services group in DTSS primarily supporting production operations environments: managing MongoDB, Couchbase, Cassandra in 2 remote data centers and on AWS. Implement DR, backup designs for Terabytes, 6 sharded Mongodb Clusters. Upgraded MongoDB from 2.4 to 2.6.• Plan, implement, upgrade Couchbase 1.8.1 to 2.5.2. Generate keys and healthcheckmonitor for daily monitoring and capacity planning. Day to day swap rebalance to de-fragment memory for Disney Park and Recreations worldwide.• Implement cross region AWS MongoDB using shard tagging for Disney Movie Anywhere for data locality between East and West coast for Disney Studios.• Benchmark MongoDB 2.6.x versus TokuMx 2.0 for ESPN and setup monitoring tools with Zabbix, MMS and internally developed Dashing dashboards.• Optimize Mongo Queries using mtools, explain and index query plans for ESPN under 10ms response time. Recommend shard key strategies.• Successfully implemented Python utility to restore Terabyte data using pre-split/move chunk mongorestore across 6 shards, multi Data Center in 24 hours for Disney Unified Messaging.• Actively engaged in AWS directions for Database as a Service on the cloud. Work with security, network teams to establish, conform to standards on Direct Connect, Business Unit’s VPCs and plan migration to hybrid cloud infrastructure.• Completed ABC Video on Demand project to store meta video clip data and benchmark and tune DB access speeds.• Actively working on system admin duties, Yum updates, kernel updates and security patches and disk array services on all database servers. Interface with HP, 10Gen, Couchbase, Datastax, Tokutek, SkySQL vendors. Promote, market, pre-sales support of NoSQL services and DBasS to all Disney Business Units.
Architect
Successfully designed, architected and migrated Mysql 5.5 InnoDB to Mysql Cluster NDB 7.2 environment. Optimized, tuned and benchmark using Tpcc, IOPS metrics collection by Dell DPACK, and long query and pt tools on InnoDB and NDB engines for 10 X performance increase. Implement fault tolerant system with Cluster NDB and Replication. Total 130 Gigs of data using EBS optimized storage.Successfully upgrade and migrate MongoDB 2.0 to 2.4 Cluster Replica/Shard environment. Optimize query with mongostat, mongotop. Implemented 3 replicas sets with 2 shards. Total 120 Gigs of data. Complete Zone migration on Amazon AWS EC2 from west1a to west2c using latest EC2 M2, M3 instances. Complete data architecture on AWS EC2 and optimized EBS.
Architect
Sucessfully design, setup, deploy, customize mobile banking system with mobile payment emphasis. P2P, merchant payments on POS interface on Android tablet. Android mobile app. Request for payments on web and by SMS.Setup secure datacenter with VM servers and VPN, SSL/REST to and from SMS gateway and payment gateway.Develop multi-band authentication system via 2.5(Edge), 3,4G, SMS, IP verification system. Security implementation using Pin based, mobile two-way confirmation and one time password.Work with banks, money transmitters and merchant processors to speed up settlement on its payment gateways with ACH, ACH remote, Mobile ACH.Work to satisfy open loop, closed loop compliance with PCI-DSS, DFI, RegE, FINCEN.
Database Remediation
Security audit, database and code optimization on Informix 11.50 HPUX server. Verify, modify PHP(Smarty forms), shell scripts, ACE reports and sql scripts on company wide patch management system for all desktop/servers.Develop, analyze migration plan from legacy Unix system to SQL Server 2008. Database design, normalization, optimization.Created testsuite for migration. Setup testing environment on Linux, PHP, Apache. Integrate Altiris, Remedy, BMC Pac2000. Test notification, e-mail generation and scheduling. Analyze,optimize Stored Procedures, Triggers, locking issues, ACE reports.
Consultant
Setup complete network, system, office documentation application for SMEs.Designed, implemented network, storage requirements for Hollywood animation studios using NetApp, Riverbed, Dell PowerEdge, ML6010 Tape Library and CA Brightstor arcserve.Designed and deployed storage architecture for VDI using Hyper-V, VmWareSetup, maintained and support HA High Availability, Replication, Disaster recovery of SQLServer and Oracle SAN architecture using Dell EqualLogicProgrammed ABAP financial reports on SAP Netweaver 7.0Convert, migrate and upgrade Website from Apache, CGI, ODBC/OCI based architecture to LAMP on Centos 5.6. Convert C based CGI to PHP 5.3 and migrated to MySQL 5.5
Chief Architect
Developed the First Metropolitan Wireless ISP (WISP, Hot Zone) in Los Angeles.Designed and Created 2 square miles of Wireless Internet Network Cloud using pre-WiMax technology in Miracle Miles location.Design and tested the largest Hot Spot; 5zone.netDesigned and deployed FreeY5 WISP user accounting and payment gateway using Pronto, Airspot, Bluesocket Wi-Fi controllers.Setup, maintained and support FreeY5 Hot Zone network.Researched and tested latest VoWlan, VoIP, VoWiFI wireless telephony solutions.Site surveyed 2 square miles of Radio Frequency signal to noise ratio in the Hot Zone.
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Consultant
Developed Wi-Fi information web portal.Lead Wi-Fi Site Survey consultant team on the field.Act as business development manager working with various Wi-Fi vendors such as Cisco, 3Com, Trapeze, Aruba, Vivato, Motorola Canopy, Linksys and Netgear.Setup Wireless Internet systems for clients using 802.11b/g/nSetup secure 802.1x, WEP, WPA Wi-Fi systems for clients.Train staff in Wi-Fi technology.Created Apple Mac OS X wireless projection driver to HDTV with Quartics.Authorized Dell Reseller and Equalogic Storage specialist.
Chief Architect
Founded the first Asian Search Engine company for the Asia market.Created the first Asian Search Engine for both Internet and Intranet Markets.Extended core technology into E-Commerce, Customer Relation Management, Content, Document Management System and Wireless.Created largest search database in Asia to search over 2 million websites in localized language using keyvalue stores. www.globepage.comPower largest Asia portal search sites Hong Kong Telecom Netvigator, Sina.com, Tom.comCreated search engine to search Informix, Oracle, Sybase, MySQL, SQLserver RDBMS.
Senior Consultant
Created ODBC Unix testsuite product for Visigenic Software (Borland /Inprise). Tested database connection to Informix, Sybase, Oracle and MS SQLserver.Created Informix Universal Server Database monitoring tools. Architected SNMP agent for Informix Software to monitor database performance, availability and statistics.Established and setup Informix databases and acted as DBA for Amgen Inc, Sales and Marketing and Research Development divisions. Managed complex distributed databases between UK and US sites. Optimized physical, logical database performance. Managed over 300 database users and 3 Gigabytes of data. Use SQL optimizer to speed up reporting process.Migrated to Informix RDBMS on Unisys for Great Western Financial Sierra fund. Fine-tuned database performance to handle 200 simultaneous sales agents. Optimized whole system using SMP Unisys system with 16 processors and RAID 0 disk configuration for OLTP trading of mutual funds.Created Network management solution for Airtouch cellular tracking system using Informix Online 5.0. Created real time call data tracking system to monitor dropped calls and trouble spots.
Dba
Member Of Technical Staff
Created DataExtract product line for Mainframe data connection.Network specialist responsible for managing Informix-Net product line.Managed AT&T technical porting account for all Informix products.Ported Informix product lines to Sun, HP, IBM, Digital, and Unisys.
Programmer Analyst
Programmed in C and Informix report writers for automated report generation of Investigation cases.
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Willy Wong works for G-Research.
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Willy Wong is listed as Manager, Database Platform Engineering at G-Research at G-Research.
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Willy Wong is based in Rowland Heights, California, United States while working with G-Research.
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Willy Wong has worked for G-Research, The Walt Disney Company, The Walt Disney Company, Disney Technology Solutions & Services Dtss, Ecinity (Bridg), and Centavi Systems.
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Willy Wong's colleagues at G-Research include Ben Hubbert, Eyad El Hindi, Mille Cycon, Laiba G, and Martin Fredericks.
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Willy Wong holds Applied Mathematics Computer Science Ba from University Of California.
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