# Jiaqi Wang

> Senior Software Engineer at Roblox

Location: San Francisco Bay Area, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/jiaqiwang

## Work Experience
### Senior Software Engineer @ Roblox
Jan 2023 – Present

### Software Engineer @ Lyft
Jan 2020 – Jan 2023 | San Francisco, California, United States

### Teaching Assistant for Compiler @ Rice University
Jan 2020 – Jan 2020 | Houston, Texas, United States

### Software Engineer Intern @ Lyft
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco, California
IDL infra

### Teaching Assistant for Parallel Programming @ Rice University
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | Houston, Texas, United States

### Software Development Intern @ OpenStax
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
•	Implemented and enhanced a web service with customized filters and sorting ways to improve users’ searching experience on open educational resources over 700,000 records
•	Sped up the weighted full-text search over 20 times and enhanced its flexibility
•	Applied and implemented caching mechanism for backend queries using Python and Memcached
•	Supported sentence parsing for 16 languages by applying PostgreSQL NLP features to improve the accessibility
•	Created an XML sitemaps generator to optimize the search engine rankings for OpenStax websites
•	Designed and built an online iOS virtual reality study App in C# under Unity editor as the lead developer

### Math Grader @ Rice University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Houston, Texas Area
•	Graded students' homework weekly
•	Helped students solve calculus problems

### Web Developer @ RiceApps
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
•	Designed the structure of Carpool, a web application for Rice students to share car rides, in a team of 7 people
•	Implemented server-side user authentication with JWT to ensure that only people with Rice Id can login to our app
•	Created RESTful APIs using Express.js and MongoDB to support core features including profile editing, ride searching, ride posting and ride joining
•	Presented and demonstrated the app to Rice students

### Innovation Fellow @ NeuroLex Labs
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | United States

### Web Development Intern @ Shanghai Baosight Software Co., Ltd.
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Shanghai, China
•	Developed and maintained RESTful registration, shopping-cart and sales-order controllers for an E-commerce platform based on Spring MVC framework
•	Utilized Hibernate to provide better support of database operations in MySQL
•	Built a Python Markov Chain model to help the iron and steel supply companies in China to predict the demands for their products in the next month
•	Designed and implemented a dynamic programming based algorithm in Java to give buyers recommendations on purchase methodology

### Summer Intern @ Caohejing Hi-Tech Park
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Shanghai, China
•	Researched on 27 incubators in Shanghai, and generalized the advantages of each of them
•	Proposed a new list of criterions to evaluate the start-ups inside the incubator, and increased the estimated success rate of start-ups by 5%
•	Proposed a new way of renting space, and increased the estimated total rental income by 7%


## Education
### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science
Rice University


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/jiaqiwang0901

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Last updated: 2026-03-29