# Albert Wang

> Experienced Software Engineer passionate in helping users | Ruby on Rails | Android | Project Management | React

Location: Mountain View, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/albertwang2

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ ART19, an Amazon Company
Jan 2023 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States

### Software Engineer @ AtoB
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023

### Software Engineer @ Google
Jan 2021 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco Bay Area
- Worked on Location Sharing for Google Maps. Responsible maintaining for 1st party integrations. Worked with the team to deliver Location Alerts, a geofence notification set by viewers.
- Revamped triage by switching from Planr to TaskFlow for the team, and led workshops prior to transition. This reduced the on-call workload and provided consistent triage for the Android, iOS, and backend teams.
- Led experimentation on the "Share Location" button that would improve the number of location sharing users by double digit %

### Sr. Software Engineer @ Brave Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California
- Engineering lead for creators.brave.com. Led API re-design to share the metadata of over 1 million content creators to 50M MAU. Saved Brave over $100k per month with the re-design and greatly improved battery life on the client side.
- Drove use of Metabase to develop metrics to make more informed decisions. Used metrics to convince team to start developing with React. Metabase monitoring informed us of issues where Sentry was silent.
- Led hiring of 2 engineers after conducting almost a hundred interviews.

### Technical Lead @ Soothe
Jan 2015 – Jan 2018 | West Hollywood, California
- Do all the things to move Soothe from Series A to Series C. Built out features for call center and Trust & Safety. Taught team significant number of performance tweaks to remove N+1 queries and full table scans. Run ETLs for the data science team for business needs
- Led re-write of the Android Therapist app. Built APIs for Android/iOS apps to consume
- Led major re-write of the backend app due to a locking issue that was costing the business money. Details described on my website

### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Lab126
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Mountain View, California
Amazon's Fire OS framework (Android fork). Deployed on Kindle Fire tablets, FireTV, and Fire phone.

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013

### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Lab126
Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 | Sunnyvale, California

### Teaching Assistant (18-202) @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Pittsburgh, PA
- Work with the professor and head teaching assistant to produce problem sets and solutions.
- Provide weekly tutoring as supplementary instruction

### Summer Intern @ Westinghouse Electric Company
Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 | Pittsburgh, PA & Scottsdale, Arizona
- Worked on the Advanced Logic System – a platform level diagnostic system using FPGA technology which will replace most nuclear power plant diagnostic system.
- Designed and wrote Perl scripts to assist with data analysis for verification teams.
- Used DPI to implement safety critical C code to assist with verification of design code written in SV.
- Wrote and reviewed many design documentations for SystemVerilog and Labview.

### Summer Intern @ Westinghouse Electric Company
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Pittsburgh, PA
Work on Field Programmable Gate Arrays for the AP1000 nuclear power plant. Wrote Perl scripts to migrate all testbenches and scripts to use common variable names. Work with project members to highlight inconsistencies between documentation and code.

### Research Assistant @ UPMC
Jan 2010 – Jan 2010
Research available power systems for a future device that will be implanted into a patient for bladder control. Improve understanding of nerve transmission through testing and simulation in the Matlab environment.


## Education
### Master's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Hortonworks

### Bachelor's degree in Electrical and Computer Engineering
Carnegie Mellon University

### Hortonworks


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/albert-wang-275b393a
- Website: https://www.albertwang.xyz

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Last updated: 2026-04-01