Summary
Phong Dong is a Senior Software Engineer at PayPal with eight years of end-to-end software delivery experience, currently shaping identity platforms in fintech. He designs and delivers RESTful services and policy-based engines using Java, Spring Boot, Node.js, and GraphQL, with deep expertise in OAuth2 and OpenID Connect. His work spans data access layers, authentication/authorization orchestration, and secure token management, including provisioning and access control across sensitive identity domains. Prior roles include data migration and tooling at IBM and security- and web-focused development at Western Digital, providing breadth across large-scale systems. Based in San Jose, California, Phong is passionate about bringing new technologies to production and solving complex, cross-domain challenges with a proactive, collaborative approach. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from San Jose State University.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
San José State University
English, Vietnamese