Albert Wang
Technical Lead Manager, UberEats Production Engineering
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlbert Wang is a technical lead manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling backend infrastructure, currently leading UberEats Production Engineering in San Francisco. He drives reliability across storage, observability, compute, networking, and developer experience to support millions of monthly users and production Go platforms. A hands-on engineer and manager, he’s contributed to notable open-source Python/Django projects—improving testing, compatibility, and profiling in repos like django-compressor and django-silk—and has a history of shipping full-stack products from startups to enterprise. He co-founded and led engineering at multiple startups, including a K-12 device management CTO role and a peer-to-peer CDN, blending product instincts with operational rigor. His background at MIT and early work on data-driven projects (e.g., StatsOnIce forecasting) reflect a blend of algorithmic curiosity and practical systems design. Colleagues describe him as someone who moves smoothly between refactoring legacy codebases and designing production-grade infrastructure.
13 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Gilman SchoolBachelor's Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's Degree, Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (20)
dependency-management10
package-management10
python10
django10
setuptools10
documentation10
testing9
refactor9
rest-api9
refactoring9
database-management9
template-tags8
regular-expression8
templater8
template-engine8
Programming languages (19)
Github contributions (5)
jazzband/django-silk
Jul 2017 - Jan 2023
Silky smooth profiling for Django
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:19 releases, 87 reviews, 72 commits in 5 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on enhancing the functionality and maintainability of the Django-based project. They added features like database pruning and incorporated garbage collection mechanisms for request/response data. Additionally, the user refactored and improved the code to align with Django 2 and later versions, addressing deprecation warnings and updating project dependencies. They also worked on improving test coverage and documentation of the project.
djangoprofiling
josegonzalez/python-github-backup
Jan 2016 - Aug 2020
backup a github user or organization
Role in this project:Backend Developer
Backend DeveloperContributions:18 commits, 11 PRs, 5 comments in 4 years 7 months
Contributions summary:Albert primarily focused on improving the functionality and maintainability of the `python-github-backup` tool. They added support for Python 3, updated the package classifiers in `setup.py`, and removed Python 2 specific import logic. The user also addressed code quality by fixing whitespace issues and removing bare excepts, and improved documentation by adding instructions for linting.
github-usergithub-backuptrending-repositoriesbackup
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