Portrait of Andy Wang
Dallas, Texas
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Andy Wang

Code Monkey.

Graduated from Rice University with a degree in CS & Statistics. Experienced backend and infrastructure software developer focused on optimizing and scaling large systems.

Experience

September 2024 - Present

The Voleon Group

Software Engineer 2

Quantitative Finance Remote

Cutting-edge machine learning technologies that drive data-driven investment strategies in financial markets.

  • Infrastructure Engineering & Platform
July 2023 - August 2024

Hive AI

Software Engineer

AI/ML San Francisco, CA

Best-in-class AI models that empower businesses to understand, search, and generate content at scale.

  • Collaborated closely with ML engineers to drive feature development for an AI art generator utilized by 14 million users worldwide.
  • Designed and implemented distributed data cleanup pipeline, resulting in a 300TB (60%) reduction in Amazon S3 usage and an estimated annual cost savings of $80K.
  • Led the rearchitecture of several internal microservices to improve scalability. Decreased memory footprint by 80% and substantially derisked deployment process by eliminating transient failures and cutting e2e deploy time from 20 to 3 minutes.
May 2022 - August 2022

Stripe

Software Engineer Intern

Financial Technology Seattle, WA

Online payment processing platform used by businesses to accept payments, manage subscriptions, and handle financial transactions

  • Owned and developed reusable React component for the Stripe Elements UI library that handles phone number collection and validation and supports over 236 regional formats. Used by over 100K businesses globally to efficiently collect shipping and billing addresses.
  • Collaborated with designers and technical writers to present UI components on public Stripe Elements documentation. Integrated fully‑functional, configurable demos of various UI components.
May 2021 - August 2021

Amazon

Software Engineer Intern

E-Commerce Seattle, WA

Global e-commerce and technology company that offers a vast range of services, including online retail and cloud computing.

  • Designed and implemented a dynamically rendered cart ingress button on Alexa’s core ”add to cart” shopping flow that handles millions of interactions per day. Enables users to seamlessly transition to their Amazon cart on multi‑modal Echo devices without a voice command. Deployed to over 30 million users in the US and EU.
  • Developed modular solution to support asynchronous data operations in the Alexa backend processing pipeline. Used by other projects to further improve Alexa Shopping interactions.

Skills

Programming Languages

Python
Python
SQL
SQL
Java
Java
Rust
Rust
JavaScript
JavaScript
TypeScript
TypeScript

Infrastructure

PostgreSQL
PostgreSQL
MySQL
MySQL
SQLite
SQLite
MongoDB
MongoDB
RabbitMQ
RabbitMQ

Development Tools

Git
Git
Linux
Linux
Docker
Docker
Jenkins
Jenkins
Podman
Podman
Nginx
Nginx
Ansible
Ansible
Hugo
Hugo