# Kwuang Tang

> SPC member, prev: early eng at Ramp

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

Building something new, technical, able to build at scale as well as 0 -> 1.
Prev. Ramp, MongoDB, Datadog.

## Work Experience
### Staff Software Engineer @ Surge AI
Jan 2026 – Present | New York, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Kikoff
Jan 2025 – Jan 2025
worked on Grant team
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/grant-cash-advance/id6472350114

### Member @ South Park Commons
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York, United States

### Staff Software Engineer @ Ramp
Jan 2022 – Jan 2024
Ramp is a financial operations platform designed to save businesses time and money. Combining corporate cards with expense management, bill payments, vendor management, accounting automation, and more, Ramp's all-in-one solution frees finance teams to do the best work of their lives. More than 25,000 companies, from family-owned farms to e-commerce giants to space startups, have saved $1B and 10M hours with Ramp. Founded in 2019, Ramp powers the fastest-growing corporate card and bill payment platform in America, and enables over 35 billion dollars in purchases each year.

Ramp's investors include Sequoia, Founders Fund, Thrive Capital, Khosla Ventures, Greylock, Stripe, Goldman Sachs, Coatue, and Redpoint, as well as over 100 angel investors who were founders or executives of leading companies. The Ramp team comprises talented leaders from leading financial services and fintech companies—Stripe, Affirm, Goldman Sachs, American Express, Mastercard, Visa, Capital One—as well as technology companies such as Meta, Uber, Netflix, Twitter, Dropbox, and Instacart.

Ramp has been named to Fast Company's Most Innovative Companies list and LinkedIn's Top U.S. Startups for over 3 years, as well as the Forbes Cloud 100, CNBC Disruptor 50, and TIME Magazine's 100 Most Influential Companies.

### Senior Software Engineer @ Ramp
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | New York, United States
worked on ACH payments, internal risk ops tooling, bank linking, growth outbound automation, onboarding/first-time UX flows, developer experience tooling, transaction processing, optimization, etc.

### Software Engineer @ Ramp
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | New York, United States
Full-stack work with React, TypeScript, Python, Flask, and PostgreSQL

### Software Engineer Intern @ MongoDB
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | New York, United States
•	Worked on Stitch serverless cloud team using Go, React, TypeScript, and Redux 
•	Contributed features for webhooks, database triggers, and function execution behavior 
•	Added authentication features supporting multiple providers, AWS Cognito and Microsoft Azure Active Dir

### Director of Engineering @ VandyHacks
Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
• Managed a team of 10+ developers, assigning project roles and leading software development work
• Developed full-stack website, NFC registration system infrastructure, and live event notification system
• One of lead developers of new hackathon management system using GraphQL, TypeScript, and React

### Board Member @ VandyHacks
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018

### HackNY Fellow @ hackNY.org
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
Social good projects, partnering with non-profit organizations: 
• Helped analyze data to find meaningful insights via machine learning and data science techniques for Usdan Summer Camp for the Arts
• Helped create PDF bank statement parsers and front-end data exploration dashboard for New York County District Attorney's Office

### Software Engineer Intern @ Datadog
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Greater New York City Area
•	Significantly improved performance of specific API queries in Python web server backend
•	Migrated over a Golang microservice that handles millions of data points daily to Kubernetes and Docker
•	Configured health and readiness checks, and high-availability scaling for cloud services in Kubernetes

### Research Intern @ Vanderbilt University
Jan 2017 – Jan 2018 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
•	Built a web app for visual and psychology experiments in Amazon Mechanical Turk 
•	Automate experiment setup/configuration via Python and AWS API
•	Used React, Node.js, Express, MongoDB

### Software Engineering Intern @ Vanderbilt University
Jan 2016 – Jan 2017 | Greater Nashville Area, TN
•	Built threaded TCP/IP networking for a virtual reality app, using C# and Python
•	Used Google Cloud Speech Recognition API for real-time speech-to-text translation
•	Used Stanford Natural Language Toolkit and machine learning models to classify text for AI agent in Python


## Education
### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science
Vanderbilt University


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

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Source: https://flows.cv/kwuang
JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/kwuang/resume.json
Last updated: 2026-04-07