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Gary Fung

@garyfung

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I build and scale high-traffic web, AI, and consumer product platforms.

Canada

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What I'm looking for

I'm looking to stay close to product and code while leading architecture, scaling high-traffic systems, and helping small teams ship quickly without long-term operational drag.

At Boom.tv, I lead engineering while staying hands-on with Starpower.ai, orchestrating vision-language models and image-generation pipelines into reliable brand advertising workflows. I also helped build teamgames.gg and Project Arcade using pragmatic architectures that let small teams move quickly.

At Midnight Society, I owned the web platform, backend services, and authentication systems for a gaming and Web3 brand. I launched a Founders application site that handled nearly 400,000 applicants in one week and led the sale of 10,000 Founders Pass NFTs, which sold out in three days.

I founded isoHunt and scaled it to around 40 million monthly active users, building global infrastructure, high-availability systems, MySQL replication, and custom Lucene-based search ranking. I bring founder-level product thinking to architecture, coding, scaling, and mentoring.

Experience

Work history, roles, and key accomplishments

Current

VP of Engineering

Current

Boom

Jul 2021 - Present (5 years 1 month)

Split time between hands-on engineering and technical leadership, focusing on Starpower.ai, combining large vision-language models with image generation pipelines. Led and contributed to web platforms including teamgames.gg and projectarcade.org.

AI Machine Learning Next.js Laravel IPFS Moralis Architecture Leadership

Director of Web Platform, Game Backend & Authentication

Midnight Society

Feb 2022 - Feb 2025 (3 years)

Owned architecture and implementation of web platform, backend services, and authentication for a gaming and Web3 brand. Launched Founders membership site handling 400k applicants in a week and led sale of 10,000 NFTs in three days.

Next.js Hasura GraphQL PostgreSQL Serverless Payments Authentication Web3

Founder

WonderSwipe

Jan 2017 - Feb 2022 (5 years 1 month)

Founded and built a product to rethink web search and information interaction, focusing on faster discovery and curation. Built primarily with React Native, emphasizing performance and intuitive UX.

React Native Product Development UX Performance

Director of Research and Development

Tiket

Feb 2019 - Feb 2021 (2 years)

Built and led engineering teams in Canada, focusing on live streaming platform. Delivered public MVP in two months, scaling to hundreds of thousands of concurrent viewers. Led teams delivering cross-platform mobile apps using React Native.

TypeScript PWA Firestore React Native CI CD E2E Testing

Founder & CTO

isoHunt Inc

Jan 2003 - Oct 2013 (10 years 9 months)

Founded and led engineering for isoHunt, growing to 40 million monthly active users and top 200 global sites. Designed global server infrastructure, implemented master-master MySQL replication, and customized Lucene for search.

Infrastructure MySQL Lucene Search High Traffic Systems Leadership