# Edward Wang

> Software Engineer at Gem

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/edwardwang

Software engineer with experience in platform and product engineering.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Gem
Jan 2024 – Present | San Francisco, California, United States
AI Team & ATS Team

### Senior Software Engineer @ Gem
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Set backend strategy for Gem ATS, including overall architecture, with an emphasis on seamless integration with existing CRM product, rapid extension to up-market requirements, and data quality.
- Cross-team improvements to Gem's engineering foundation.
- Led initiative to reduce toil and improve reliability of our integrations with third-party ATSs.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Dropbox
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Founding engineer of Dropbox Shop, a new product allowing users to sell digital goods directly from Dropbox. Rapidly shipped V0 closed beta in less than 2 months, followed by open beta and GA.
- Championed a pivot away from "magic signup" and led true userless guest checkout.
- Led PayPal integration. Took ownership of Payment team's work at the start of the project after regulatory changes with recurring payments in India stole their engineers.

### Software Engineer II @ Dropbox
Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Led tail-end decoupling challenges of the Identity service, leading two other engineers and working across multiple teams to update product behavior and safely rework transactional boundaries.
- Mentored intern, new grad, and industry engineers. Interviewed hundreds of candidates.
- Founding engineer of an enterprise team shipping new features and solving issues with scale.

### Software Engineer I @ Dropbox
Jan 2017 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California, United States
- Extracted Dropbox's core identity model from the monolith into a SOA service serving 1+ million QPS. 
- Responsible for 99.9% service availability and around-the-clock 5 min incident response time as a member of an on-call rotation of three engineers.
- Refactored legacy systems and regularly migrated data for hundreds of millions of users quickly and safely.

### Mouse Surgeon @ Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014 | New York, New York, United States

### Pig Surgeon @ Aarhus University
Jan 2011 – Jan 2011 | Århus, Middle Jutland, Denmark


## Education
### MSBS
Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai
Jan 2011 – Jan 2014


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-22