Summary
Adrian Wong is a software engineer based in Toronto with 8 years of experience building large-scale backend systems, currently working at Stripe after a sequence of engineering roles at Amazon and AWS focused on S3, membership management, and streaming systems. Trained in Systems Design Engineering at the University of Waterloo, he brings a systems-thinking approach to designing reliable, high-throughput services and has repeatedly moved between feature development and core infrastructure projects. His background includes hands-on work across cloud-native tooling, distributed storage, and mobile/backend stacks from internships through senior IC roles, giving him fluency in both product-facing services and low-level platform concerns. Notably, he progressed within AWS from intern to SDE II before joining Stripe, signaling fast technical growth and strong impact in critical cloud services. Colleagues would find him comfortable owning complex data paths and encoding/streaming challenges while still shipping pragmatic product features.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Systems Design Engineering, Bachelor of Applied Science - BASc Systems Design Engineering at University of Waterloo