Summary
Alan Wong is an engineering manager with 12 years of experience building high-performance web applications and leading teams to deliver elegant, user-focused front-end experiences. Based in Oakland, he currently manages two teams at Change.org, applying a design-forward mentality to products that aim to create social impact. Previously at Mavenlink and Lookout he moved from principal engineer to architect and manager, extracting monolithic frontends into microfrontends and improving CI and developer workflows. He blends hands-on React and responsive UI expertise with a coach-first leadership style that emphasizes skill development, empathy, and measurable team growth. Comfortable coordinating across time zones from his Adobe days, he brings both product sensibility and deep operational knowledge to shipping polished, scalable web products. Colleagues describe him as someone who balances visual craft with pragmatic engineering and intentionally develops people as well as systems.
12 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
BA, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics, BA, Computer Science, Applied Mathematics at University of California, Berkeley