Top areas of interest:
- Machine learning
- Optimizing request/service/site speed
- Distributed service architectures
- Performance testing and regression detection
- Low-level software speed/memory optimizations
- Devops & build automation
- Site Security and DDOS Prevention
- Ranking and recommendation systems
- Virtual Reality (VR/AR)
Tech Lead + Software Engineer, Infrastructure & Speed @ Speed Lead/DRI. Directly responsible for all speed projects, initiatives, and goals at Quora as part of the Infrastructure team.
Made multiple double digit improvements to site GET and POST speed, and worked on intelligent scraper detection systems. Primary projects include developing and optimizing a parallel computing page rendering architecture, optimizing client-side speeds, and various distributed system architectures. From September 2014 to Present (1 year 2 months) Mountain View, CASoftware Engineer @ Software engineer on core product team, responsible for building and maintaining financial models and creating features on the app through both front-end and back-end engineering. From June 2014 to August 2014 (3 months) Mountain View, CA
Bachelor of Science (BS), Mathematics and Computer Science @ Massachusetts Institute of Technology From 2014 to 2018 High School, GPA: 4.4 @ Los Alamos High School From 2011 to 2014 Alexandr Wang is skilled in: Software Engineering, Python, C++, Distributed Systems, Algorithms, Git, Java, Infrastructure, Parallel Programming, Computer Science, Mathematics, JavaScript, Programming, Physics, MySQL, Algorithm Design, CoffeeScript, SQL, Linux, HTML, LaTeX, Machine Learning, C, CSS, PHP, Matlab, Software Development, jQuery, Web Development, Unix, Architecture, Optimization, Eclipse, Web Applications, Scalability, Data Analysis, C#, R, Hadoop, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, Agile Methodologies, Perl, Databases, OOP, Software Design, XML