# Andy Wang

> Founding Product Engineer at Spur | CS @ Columbia, Ex Red-Hat, IXL

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

## Work Experience
### Founding Product Engineer @ Spur (YC S24)
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States
employee #1... spurring!

### Software Engineer @ IXL Learning
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | Morrisville, North Carolina, United States
Software Engineer on the Wyzant Team

### Software Engineer @ Shade Inc.
Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 | Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
• Developed four full-stack features that improved the clarity of user experience, cleaned redundant processing, and drove conversion to paying customers.
• Worked in a rapid startup development cycle, implementing UX/UI designs and tech/product specs into code following best practices and company code standards.

### Software Engineer @ The Vendry
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023
• Built a system to create, assign, and search venues by awards they have won, allowing users to better assess their options.
• Managed and developed the full-stack of the feature, including storing data in seven MySQL tables, writing KnexJS requests to a REST API backend, and interfacing with the user through Typescript, React JS, and HTML/CSS.
• Fixed over 50 bugs, using NPM, AWS, Postman deploy, and Express JS while working in an agile environment.

### Full Stack Data Science Software Engineering Intern @ IBM
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | Raleigh, NC
• Automated the user-data analysis process for the Redhat ACM product by connecting the data emissions with our Python backend, and presenting the graphs on a Streamlit website.
• Provided data-driven guidance for decisions affecting 1k+ corporate customers, saving 5 hours of weekly work for Vice Presidents and Distinguished Engineers.
• Stored the data using a SQL cache, speeding up data retrieval by over 500%.
• Deployed in the Cloud using a Kubernetes Cluster, and maintained the health of the service using Grafana Dashboard.

### Residential Life Assistant @ North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
Check the safety/location of all hall residents, create and plan activities, manage residents to complete housekeeping, provide emotional support.

### Research Intern @ Humans and Autonomy Lab at Duke
Jan 2017 – Jan 2020 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
The Humans and Autonomy Lab looks into the intersection between cutting edge technology and human subjects. 
- Built a Java control panel with multiple formats to direct drones flying in a real-world environment. Created data pathways to capture user action emissions to analyze.
- Created a Python implementation of Hierarchical Temporal Memory, a form of Machine Learning to use with robotics.
- Upgraded legacy C and PHP code into Java, for an extensive project for the Dept. of Transportation, that would simulate the workload of various freight rail operators. This upgrade helped increase code efficiency and runtime by 25%.

### Volunteer @ Kramden Institute
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Durham, North Carolina, United States
Worked on a team to refurbish old and broken computers and prepare them for donation to the greater Durham community. Volunteered a total of 60 hours.

### C Squad Member @ District C
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina Area
District C is a program focused on bringing fresh ideas to local business problems. Teams consisting of students from different schools interview local business leaders and spend several weeks designing a solution.

Developed a variety of skills, including teamwork, leadership, and professionalism. Learned from some of the best business leaders in the local area.

Worked with Carpe Lotions, which creates and sells anti-perspirant hand cream. Carpe's issue was in identifying creativity and passion within marketing manager candidates. Created a solution in which key features could be identified through demonstration.

Worked with The Malkuta Project, a non-profit dedicated towards imparting valuable multi-media skills to disconnected youth. The MP's issue was in finding disconnected youth reliably in the community. Developed a multifaceted solution that included real world events and a targeted social media ad campaign.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
Columbia University

### North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics

### Durham Academy


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/andyjwang19
- Website: https://andyjwang19.github.io/PersonalSite

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Source: https://flows.cv/andywang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/andywang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-03-21