# Dennis Wang

> Senior Software Engineer at Vanta | ex-Airbnb

Location: New York, New York, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/denniswang1

Dennis graduated with honors from Carnegie Mellon University with BSc in Computer Science and a minor in Machine Learning. Currently, he works as a full stack engineer at Vanta. He graduated from St. George's School in Vancouver, BC in May 2015.

Dennis has a passion for finance, technology, social issues and music. He is also a passionate Canucks fan, an investor, a flutist, and a tennis player.

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2025 – Present | New York, New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Vanta
Jan 2022 – Jan 2025 | New York, New York, United States

### Angel Investor @ Angel Investor
Jan 2024 – Present | New York, New York, United States
SpaceX - Secondary (Oct 2024)
Stealth Company - Pre-Seed (Dec 2024)
Blockskye - Series C (Feb 2025)

### Software Engineer @ Bolt
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
- Worked with Golang and Typescript/React on the Shopper team to create a seamless login experience
- Standardized authentication logic across Bolt surfaces to reduce friction for over 10000 shoppers weekly
- Designed and architected device based auto-login solution to improve checkout conversion

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States

### Software Engineer @ Airbnb
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Worked with Java and SQL on the Ambassadors team to increase Airbnb host supply
- Designed and architected new incentive models to reduce cost and optimize for listing LTV
- Built tools and added entry points to help our Ambassadors find and onboard new hosts
- Fine tuned bounties to incentivize users to refer more hosts
- Collaborated extensively with cross functional roles such as product and design

### Software Engineer Intern @ Yext
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | New York, New York, United States
- Built and added features to new Landing Pages product to serve smaller clients
- Used React, Go and Soy templates to make significant UI changes
- Migrated and manipulated data in MySQL database to reorganize and optimize client data
- Refactored and developed in Go to scale and modularize Landing Pages backend

### Teaching Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Graded assignments for 15-122 Principles of Imperative Computation

- Instructed recitations to review and expand course topics from lecture

- Aided students in understanding basic data structures and algorithms in a variation of C

- Explained the importance of correctness in implementing algorithms in imperative languages

### Software Engineering Intern @ Bloomberg LP
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Greater New York City Area
- Modernized backend C++ codebase for Fixed Income Trading team
- Reduced information display latency by 33% by routing data more efficiently using JavaScript
- Tested and timed new caching solutions like REDIS for storing security information
- Improved and simplified data buffer implementation using descriptive tags and hash maps

### Computer Vision Intern @ NetEase
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China
- Trained neural network models for image classification and labeling tasks

- Used advanced computer vision and machine learning tools such as OpenCV and Caffe

- Developed a deep understanding of how to build, customize and efficiently train neural networks

- Gained insight into automating various tasks with Python scripts

### Research Assistant @ Carnegie Mellon University
Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 | Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- Built a model using C++ to measure job growth, innovation and industrial change

- Simulated the rate at which technology will replace human jobs

- Explored the economic impact to currency of long term technology growth

- Collaborated with a professor and five other students

### Online Contributor @ Seeking Alpha
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
First Article: http://seekingalpha.com/article/3676866-the-long-case-for-disney

### Developer @ Stacksity
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015
"Stacksity is a site about everything and anything. You follow stacks (topics) and other users that provide content and news updates. You also have the power to share links, text, and images with your friends and with the world. Discuss issues, read news, or just show your friends something funny. Most importantly, vote your favorites to the top of the stack! Through followers you can reach an even wider audience, and keep in touch with friends and colleagues." - https://stacksity.com

### Assistant Director of UNDP @ VMUN 2015
Jan 2015 – Jan 2015

### Director of Finance @ MiniEnterprize
Jan 2014 – Jan 2015


## Education
### Bachelor of Science (B.Sc.) in Computer Science
Carnegie Mellon University

### St. George's School

### Physics
UCL


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/dennis-wang-bb292461

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Last updated: 2026-03-30