# Victor Wang > Staff Software Engineer/Technical Advisor at Deepgram, ex-Amazon Location: Stanford, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/victorwang Strategic technology leader with progressive experience spanning software development, consulting, program management, and solutions architecture. Currently driving healthcare startup growth with 250%+ YoY revenue increases through technical leadership and executive engagement. Proven thought leader, evidenced by blog posts, global speaking engagements, and open-source AWS projects at the forefront of GenAI innovation. Previous roles include leading 30+ global teams with 150+ developers as TPM in delivering critical AWS database initiatives; architecting large-scale cloud governance solutions for Lockheed Martin as ProServe Consultant; and building foundational Site-to-Site VPN operational tooling as SDE. My passion is delivering enterprise-grade solutions while maintaining startup agility and innovation. ## Work Experience ### Staff Software Engineer @ Deepgram Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco, CA Technical Advisor to VP of Eng ### Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, GenAI @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2025 – Jan 2026 | San Francisco, CA Strategic Partner & Customer Engagement: Transformed relationships with high-growth AI startups into multi-year strategic partnerships, securing commitments across Perplexity, Fireworks, Deepgram, and others. Built executive-level technical credibility (CTO/VP Eng) by architecting solutions for complex challenges including large-scale model training, distributed inference systems handling millions of requests per second, and global voice AI infrastructure. Product Influence & Cross-Org Collaboration: Drove critical AWS service improvements by identifying and escalating technical gaps to product leadership, resulting in a new API (Bi-directional Streaming Support) for AWS Sagemaker, EFA performance enhancements for MoE inference, and Bedrock latency optimizations. Partnered with Directors and Principal Engineers across SageMaker, Bedrock, EC2, and Annapurna teams to translate customer requirements into product roadmap priorities. Field Enablement & Thought Leadership: Created and scaled comprehensive enablement programs adopted across global SUP GenAI SA organization (40+ SAs), including training curriculum on Amazon Learn, specialty builder frameworks for SageMaker HyperPod, and workload playbooks for model providers. Technical Community & Partner Ecosystem: Led developer enablement initiatives including 3rd-party technical workshops (Anthropic, AMD, NVIDIA). ### Sr. Startup Solutions Architect, Healthcare @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2023 – Jan 2025 | San Francisco, California, United States Business Impact & Growth: Drove 33% YoY territory revenue growth from a $10M baseline with 80 High Priority customer accounts, achieving 100% of revenue and non-revenue goals. Scaled strategic account from $1.2M to $4.3M ARR (258% growth) through strategic technical leadership, executive alignment, and successful implementation of cloud modernization initiatives Technical Leadership & Innovation: Led team of 3 to win first place among 848 participants in 2024 internal company hackathon, developing serverless semantic video search solution that garnered 88+ views and 18+ forks. Presented "Securing and Scaling Multi-Tenant Applications" at AWS On Air Startups Livestream, demonstrating architectural best practices to global startup audience Developed and open-sourced comprehensive GenAI patient matching solution for clinical trials, including production-ready Jupyter notebooks with batch inference capabilities Spearheaded successful GenAI production deployments for healthcare startups implementing solutions from proof-of-concept to scale in a variety of use-cases from chatbots, summarization, Q+A, and others. Authored high-impact technical content including ML blog post (750+ unique views) and hands-on workshops for healthcare AI services Cross-functional Excellence: Served as Database and Networking specialist across territories, resolving critical escalations for customers including complex Aurora database migrations and AWS Network Firewall implementations ### Senior Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2022 – Jan 2023 | East Palo Alto, California, United States ### Technical Program Manager @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 | East Palo Alto, California, United States Release Manager for the new major version of Aurora MySQL compatible with MySQL 8.0 coordinating delivery across 30+ feature teams around the world. Starting, driving, and shipping of cross-functional operational and process improvements for a 150+ person organization. Influencing development priorities by leveraging developer background to estimate resourcing and quantifying customer impact with data. Continuous delivery of version currency with Aurora MySQL achieving parity of community MySQL versions within 2 quarters. Deprecated older releases including the removal of 99 out of 108 total engine versions equating to a 92% improvement in fleet version consistency and higher average availability for customers. Increased product transparency by implementing a review process to raise the release notes quality. ### Consultant, Cloud Application Architect @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2019 – Jan 2021 | Herndon, VA Engaged multiple Lockheed Martin business areas to support Splunk log analysis from 100,000+ windows computers and 1 billion events per day using kinesis firehose, s3, and lambda. Also helped deploy a bump-in-the- wire traffic inspection for all traffic in/out of the network using AWS Transit Gateway Worked with the Small Business Administration to process 600,000 scanned emergency loan documents from the COVID 19 Crisis using a fully serverless architecture with Textract powered by AI and A2i (Augmented AI) for human reviews of low confidence fields. Worked with US Tax Court to implement a large scale SQL to noSQL database migration for 100,000+ documents and cases consisting of 4TB+ of data in under 48 hours using a serverless architecture. Supported other workstreams including hybrid networking efforts involving DX and VPN, Cloudsearch integration, Windows FsX File Server setup, etc. Worked with a team of AWS consultants to build and deploy a reusable highly scalable static React website in 1 week that would support millions of users, with automated backup/failover, DDoS protections, and a CI/CD pipeline using a variety of AWS services in response to COVID-19. This solution has been reused by many large organizations including Robinhood. Helped plan, architect, and scope multiple AWS Proserve engagements working with the account team, delivery managers, and other consultants to capture new business. Worked with a team of 3 other AWS consultants to build a robotic Air Hockey Table featured at Re:Invent 2019 Builder's Fair utilizing machine vision and micro controllers with a physics based response engine and won the best project of the day award. ### Software Development Engineer @ Amazon Web Services (AWS) Jan 2018 – Jan 2019 | Herndon, VA Defined project requirements and scope for improvements required to modernize support tooling for Site-to-Site VPN by working with key stakeholders including support engineers, software developers, and the executive leadership team. Overhauled support tool and underlying infrastructure used by 10,000 VPN support engineers across 24 AWS regions. The tool reduced response times for many issues from 1 day to 1 minute and reduced unnecessary service team operational load by almost 100% for infrastructure related issues. Support tooling was built using the AWS Well-Architected Framework with modular scalability, redundancy, security, operational insight, and low cost in mind while still allowing 1 click deployments for new region builds. ### Software Development Engineer Intern @ Amazon Web Services Jan 2017 – Jan 2017 | Herndon, VA Played pivotal role in defining the project requirements and setting up the user interface for the custom customer gateway device that the AWS VPN team was debuting using the Snowball Edge platform. Developed the entire software stack for the project which included using HTML, CSS, Javascript to develop the web pages in the front-end and used a Sparkjava server to develop the backend to serve static web pages and RESTful requests. Performed rigorous unit testing and functional testing using a variety of testing suites including CasperJS, Junit, Mocha and developed a custom testing suite for the sparkjava server. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Crestron Electronics Jan 2016 – Jan 2016 | Rockleigh, NJ Performed Research and Development for a brand new project involving indoor positioning solutions and lighting to support wayfinding in an office. Integral part of the team from project conception (planning how the tests should be conducted) to analyzing the results from the data and helping Crestron decide to move into large scale development. Built complete testing platform including multiple test bench applications on multiple mobile platforms to obtain results on how differing software and hardware configurations affect accuracy. Source code for test bench applications on both iOS and Android can be found at https://github.com/VWang1111?tab=repositories Authored a white paper detailing indoor positioning solutions. ### Resident Assistant @ University of California, San Diego Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 Acted as the Resident Assistant for over 60 residents in the UCSD community. Honed my leadership and ability to work in a team with a group of 30 other Resident Assistants to help deliver the best experience to members of the community. Developed strong problem solving skills and detail oriented written communication skills when dealing with problems that cropped up over the course of the school year. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Metron, Inc. Jan 2015 – Jan 2015 Explored the uses of big data and authored a report about Twitter data analysis and built a sample app that harnesses my knowledge of data visualization from previous internships. ### Software Engineer Internship @ Metron, Inc. Jan 2013 – Jan 2013 Improved and added many requested features for a custom graphical user interface for an advanced simulation program. Pioneered a new global search functionality through the use of IPC (Inter Process Communication) ### Software Engineer Internship @ Metron, Inc. Jan 2012 – Jan 2012 Improved and added many requested features for a custom graphical user interface for an advanced simulation program ## Education ### Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science University of California, Berkeley ### Computer Science UC San Diego ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/vwang1111 --- Source: https://flows.cv/victorwang JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/victorwang/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-01