# Richard Dang

> Software Engineer @ Alchemy

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

## Work Experience
### Software Engineer @ Alchemy
Jan 2023 – Present | New York, New York, United States
Alchemy provides the leading blockchain development platform powering millions of users in 197 countries worldwide. Our mission is to provide developers with the fundamental building blocks they need to create the future of technology.

### Software Engineer @ Nuro
Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | Mountain View, California, United States
⋄ Independently drove the end-to-end development of the vehicle handoff assignment interface
required to perform thousands of autonomous deliveries for partner launches with Uber, 7-Eleven
and Kroger using React Typescript, Mapbox, and Apollo GraphQL
⋄ Owned and rapidly iterated on the implementation of the Guardian app with Recoil and URQL
subscriptions, crucial for managing large fleets of unsupervised delivery bots on public roads 
⋄ Significantly reduced vehicle job scheduling time by 76% through the creation of a bulk editing
template management UI that utilizes the MVP pattern and RxJS
⋄ Developed API to reroute fleet vehicles via blockages using Go, gRPC, PubSub and MySQL which
enabled unsupervised indirect control operations

### Software Engineer II @ NerdWallet
Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area
⋄ Fully revamped the mobile app’s member home experience built with React Native leading to a boost in new member retention by over 30%
⋄ Developed and owned an entirely redesigned onboarding experience for the mobile app using
FSMs resulting in a 50% increase in TransUnion and Plaid activation rates of new members
⋄ Spearheaded the client and server migration of the core credit score experience from Redux to Apollo GraphQL, improving client state management and enabling efficient data fetching
⋄ Increased app’s monthly revenue by 15% through integration of financial product marketplace

### Software Engineer I @ NerdWallet
Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Software Engineering Intern @ NerdWallet
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019 | San Francisco Bay Area
⋄ Created Spark streaming app to enrich traffic events at 6400 events/sec from Kafka to S3
⋄ Developed near real-time streaming app that groups events into sessions based on user inactivity 
⋄ Used Spark batch processing to detect and categorize bot activity in event traffic on a daily basis 
⋄ Set up cluster infrastructure for Kafka and AWS EMR to host Spark applications

### Software Engineering Intern @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Weston, Florida, USA
⋄ Developed Spark apps for event ingestion and GDPR which processes over 600 events/sec
⋄ Built a Spark streaming app for processing and replaying events with Kafka integration
⋄ Setup Hadoop on a Docker environment for automated integration testing through Concourse
⋄ Integrated metrics instrumentation using AOP allowing for greater insights on app performance

### Software Engineering Intern @ Ultimate Software
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⋄ Introduced functionality to host web app used for managing thousands of Android, Linux, and web time clocks, maintained through GWT, Spring and Hibernate
⋄ Created GDPR app to purge deleted employees by implementing schema constraints to maintain database integrity using Liquibase
⋄ Incorporated features on web time clock app using AngularJS to allow supervisors to override employee check-ins

### Software Engineering Intern @ Hubdoc
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⋄ Built and migrated hundreds of document fetching microservices from PhantomJS to NightmareJS, increasing reliability from 46% to 73%
⋄ Implemented an intranet dashboard with ExpressJS and BackboneJS used for proxy management
⋄ Integrated webhook within web app for receiving updated user credential alerts

### Software Engineering Intern @ Flipp
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⋄ Introduced continuous integration across multiple projects providing early risk detection, feedback loops, and quick deployments utilizing Jenkins
⋄ Developed automated system checks to enable back-end health monitoring across all platforms
⋄ Automated performance testing to ensure response times for A/B test framework using JMeter

### Software Engineering Intern @ GEO Semiconductor, Inc.
Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Toronto, Ontario, Canada
⋄ Reduced overall testing time by more than 80% through automation of testing procedures 
⋄ Developed host tools for internal testing/development and designed regression test plans


## Education
### Bachelor of Applied Science (B.A.Sc.) in Computer Engineering
University of Waterloo
Jan 2015 – Jan 2020

### Ontario Secondary School Diploma
William Lyon Mackenzie Collegiate Institute
Jan 2011 – Jan 2015


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

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Last updated: 2026-03-23