# Albert Wang

> SWE @ Datadog

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/albertwang1

Software engineer interested in the intersection between technology and education. I want to do work that can help make somebody else's life easier. Currently working on developer experience @ Datadog.

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer II @ Datadog
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Developer Experience / Dependency Management

### Senior Software Engineer @ Vontive
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024
Led the platform team at Vontive, covering:
- Infrastructure/Devops
- Code quality
- Developer experience
- Upgraded Vue2 / Vuetify 2 frontend to Vue 3 / Vuetify 3

### Software Engineer @ Vontive
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023
- Led the platform team to improve stability and developer experience
- Improved frontend deploy times from a constantly growing 60+ minute duration to a constant 7 minutes by consolidating build logic to a single base site
- Established pattern for keeping track of environment variables using AWS Parameter Store
- Co-lead company-wide DEI initiatives
- Organized multiple in-person onsite events for the engineering and data teams every year

### Software Engineer @ Multi Media, LLC
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | Los Angeles, California, United States
- Implemented site-wide direct messages on the frontend (imagine DMs on Twitter) using an in-house component library and a rudimentary self-built state management system

### Software Engineering and Product Management Intern @ Coursera
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
Simplified the plagiarism detection process for instructors from hundreds of clicks to three clicks
Scoped out UI/UX and backend architecture
Decided and kept track of key metrics to measure success of the feature
Designed Scala API for initiating S3 file transfers and accessing specific learner submissions

### Engineering Fellow @ Kleiner Perkins
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Data Science Intern @ Adobe
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area
Built full-stack app for visualizing outputs from predictive learning models with React
Engineered Python API using Flask to interface front-end with Postgres database
Wrote PySpark aggregation job to convert individual datum from Azure blob storage to Postgres schema

### Software Engineering Intern @ NETSCOUT
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Rockville, Maryland
Developed full-stack system health monitor tool for resources like CPU, memory, and disk
Created predictive analysis tool using machine learning to forecast when resources will reach critical levels
Integrated complete project into extensive codebase
Used shell scripting, Java, NoSQL, and AngularJS

### Community Assistant @ University of Maryland College Park
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Worked the front desk at the school dormitory
Helped create a welcoming and positive atmosphere
Provided customer service to residents and visitors
Functioned in a team of 13 undergraduate and graduate students

### Undergraduate Intern @ University of Maryland College Park
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017
Helped improve and fix web and mobile web versions of UMD NewsStand, a location-based news aggregator
Responsible for integrating headline translations, as well as mobile web image galleries via PhotoSwipe (http://photoswipe.com/)
Coded in JavaScript and HTML

### Summer Research Intern @ J. Craig Venter Institute
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
Performed daily synthetic biology wet lab work at non-profit research organization to establish new ways to modify DNA (CRIPSR/Cas9).
Used basic techniques as PCR and cell culture
Presented findings in institute's end of summer poster session

### Summer Research Intern @ National Taiwan University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2014
Experimented on Hepatitis C cells to determine specific genetic structure


## Education
### Bachelor of Arts - BA in Computer Science
University of California, Berkeley
Jan 2018 – Jan 2020

### Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Maryland
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018

### Montgomery Blair High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/aalbertjay

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Last updated: 2026-03-23