George Kong

George Kong has a long and varied work experience. George began their career in 1982 as a Member of Technical Staff at AT&T Bell Laboratories, where they designed and implemented an asynchronous, memory-mapped I/O framework for device drivers in the UNIX kernel. After completing three years of full-time work, plus summers and school breaks while attending Brown, Stanford, and Westminster Seminary, they moved on to Silicon Graphics in 1987. At Silicon Graphics, they managed graphics system software for the IRIS GTX and IRIS VGX, and wrote a white paper that drove the requirements definition for the graphics subsystem of the Reality Engine graphics supercomputer. George also designed and implemented embedded control software for the graphics subsystem in the IRIS GT super-workstation and designed graphics microcode components.

In 1996, George Kong joined Liberate Technologies as a Software Engineering Manager, responsible for Liberate's operating system abstraction layer, web APIs, SDKs, and partner device integrations. George was a member of the founding technical team, helping take the company from start-up to high-profile IPO and multi-billion-dollar market cap.

From 2000 to 2009, George Kong was self-employed as an independent consultant, working on many projects including a light-weight, fast, scalable web back-end framework in go/golang and a light-weight web front-end framework in JavaScript. George also developed an e-commerce web app for an educational curriculum company.

Since 2018, George Kong has served as the Chief Technology Officer at Reflexion, where they are responsible for technology strategy and hands-on engineering management for a start-up building cognitive testing and training systems. George has personally built a non-trivial portion of every element in the hardware and software stack.

George Kong completed their Bachelor of Science in Computer Science from Brown University in 1981. George then pursued a Master of Science in Computer Science/Computer Engineering from Stanford University from 1981-1982. After that, they went on to receive their Master of Arts in Religious Studies from Westminster Theological Seminary from 1985-1987.