Software Engineer motivated by making business and creative ideas come true

Taipei, Taiwan | +886 966-940-851 | [email protected]

github.com/austin-sa-wang

PROFESSIONAL SUMMARY

Full Stack Engineer with 8 years of experience in web applications and API development. Result-oriented problem solver with the ability to bridge ideas between business and technology

WORK EXPERIENCE

Software Engineer, Edvisor

Mar 2015 **** - Sept 2022

• Staff Engineer for Edvisor, a Student Recruitment Software that helps international education companies streamline the way they sell education, used by over 1,500 companies and handles 7,000 students weekly. Grew with the company from 13 to 90 employees.
• Ensure the engineering team is moving forward in both feature releases and technical excellence while being an individual contributor myself
• Led up to 3 teams of 4 to build Edvisor's web apps with various features such as CRM, marketplace, product pricing configuration, calculation, search, analytics, and 3rd-party integrations
• Rescued 2 run-away projects, delivering long-overdue features to customers in 25% of the time, by re-organizing the plan and coordinating the team
• Be the subject expert for the product, code base, and engineering operations, enabling the team to stay effective amidst team restructurings, by coordinating communication both within and out of the engineering team, and by providing guidance and resource on the code base
• Upgraded the team, improving cohesion and effectiveness of the engineering team as a whole, through 1-on-1s and mentorship, and by promoting collaboration and knowledge sharing with new processes and tooling
• Propose pragmatic solutions, align and lead the team to resolve unforeseen business logic, design, and technical obstacles quickly, maintaining the momentum of development, by leveraging my ability to understand problems and goals from the business perspective and working with PM and stakeholders
• Implemented and released a complex restructure of Edvisor’s course category design, involving multiple frontends, internal and public APIs, and complex data migration, which also required backward compatibility for gradual roll-out. Facing unclear scope, worked closely with sales, support, internal data team, product owner directly, resulting in a successful launch without disruption and allowing Edvisor to enter a new market
• Built a pricing engine with complex business rules and a search engine that supports searching 13,000 products, each with up to 1.5 million price variations per week. Later, worked with 2 other senior developers to improve search speed, resulting in 16 times faster search speed, by implementing a cache layer with REDIS

SKILLS

Programming Languages: TypeScript (Fluent), JavaScript (Expert), HTML/PUG, CSS/SCSS

Technologies: webpack, Babel, TSLint, Serverless, GraphQL