# Charles Wang

> Software Engineer at Meta

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/charleswang1

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Meta
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, United States
Building classifiers for Youth ML

Previously, worked on AI infrastructure for recommendation systems

### Software Engineer @ Affirm
Jan 2024 – Jan 2024 | New York, United States
- Improved observability of customer journeys by implementing a top-level workflow identifier for end-to-end interaction tracking. 

- Contributed to re-architecting the checkout service, significantly enhancing scalability, reliability, and maintainability of critical transaction flows.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, NY
- Built a graph-based data discovery POC using enterprise ontology and Amazon Neptune, enabling unified querying across disparate datasets via SPARQL

- Drove product direction through stakeholder interviews, defining roadmap for enterprise data discovery platform

- Optimized streaming pipelines by introducing feature extraction in filter expressions, reducing payload size and storage costs

- Migrated APM metrics from Splunk to New Relic, improving monitoring latency and system observability

- Mentored junior engineers through bi-weekly career development sessions

### Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, NY
- Led design of a multi-region, active-active serverless config platform (AWS Lambda, SQS, DynamoDB/DAX), enabling zero-downtime updates across microservices

- Built A/B experimentation framework for Eno, accelerating iteration on user experiences across channels

- Evaluated and drove adoption of DynamoDB DAX over Redis, influencing org-wide caching strategy

- Served as CMU campus ambassador, supporting recruiting and university engagement

### Associate Software Engineer @ Capital One
Jan 2019 – Jan 2020 | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineering Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | McLean, Virginia

### Software Engineering Intern @ Capital One
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Richmond, Virginia Area

### Manipulation Lab Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | Pittsburgh, PA


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/charleswang429

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Last updated: 2026-04-05