# Brent Wang

> Software Engineer at YouTube

Location: San Bruno, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/brentwang

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ YouTube
Jan 2019 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ Google
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater Los Angeles Area
●  Search Infrastructure Org
●  Designed new retry policy of an internal service for managing config distributions
●  Improved end-to-end latency of distribution system serving ~2000 active configs

### Production Engineering Intern @ Facebook
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Menlo Park
● Extended an internal tool for detecting configuration errors in backend entities
● Wrote checks evaluating health metrics of ~2k database instances and ~100k web services
● Improved platform more extensible for future checks.

### Co-Founder and Front-End Developer @ Pakochi
Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
Pakochi was a mobile application that allowed members within a student organization to instantaneously exchange contact information and social media accounts with one another.
● Designed UX and built app frontend from scratch using React Native (JS)
● Rolled out test release to 15 student organizations totaling ~500 students

### Autonomy Software Developer @ Michigan Mars Rover Team - University of Michigan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Ann Arbor, Michigan
Every year the Michigan Mars Rover Student Project Team builds a rover from scratch to complete in the University Rover Challenge (URC) in Utah in June. My first year on the team was the first year the challenge included an autonomous component.

● Created GPS stream parser to aid navigation
● Tuned pathfinding algorithm parameters using ROS simulations
● Designed ultrasonic proximity awareness system
● Coordinated autonomous movement with ultrasonics and 3D depth-image data


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in Computer Science
University of Michigan
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019

### High School
Ottawa Hills High School
Jan 2012 – Jan 2016


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22