Albert Wang
Software Engineer at ART19, an Amazon Company
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolAlbert Wang is a seasoned software engineer with 11 years of experience building scalable mobile and backend systems from startups to large tech firms in Mountain View. He has led engineering efforts at Brave (saving the company over $100k/month through an API redesign) and driven product improvements at Google Maps, including experiments that significantly increased location-sharing usage. His background spans Android, backend performance tuning, and platform-level work on Amazon's Fire OS, reflecting a blend of product-minded engineering and systems-level optimization. At Brave he also championed metric-driven decisions and hiring, and contributed Android UI fixes to the high-profile Brave browser project. Known for reducing operational load through process changes (triage tooling at Google) and fixing costly backend locking issues at Soothe, he pairs hands-on coding with pragmatic leadership. Based in Mountain View, he brings an uncommon mix of mobile UI polish, backend cost-savings, and measurable product impact.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
HortonworksMaster's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree, Electrical and Computer Engineering at Carnegie Mellon University
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Github Skills (14)
javas10
mobile-development10
ui-design10
interface-design10
android-development10
java10
concurrent-hashmap6
homebrew6
ios6
sparse-array6
android6
iphone6
multithreading6
hashmap6
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
brave/brave-core
Aug 2018 - May 2021
Core engine for the Brave browser for mobile and desktop. For issues https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/issues
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:67 reviews, 28 commits, 43 PRs in 2 years 9 months
Contributions summary:Albert focused on improving the Brave Ads notification system within the Android application. Their commits primarily addressed the user interface, including font sizes, button adjustments, and enhanced drag behavior for dismissing notifications. Furthermore, the user made modifications to the notification dialog to address issues related to user interaction and closing notifications. They fixed a lint issue.
browserwindowsbrave-browserlinuxandroid
yachtcaptain23/browser-android-tabs
Feb 2018 - Jul 2019
Brave Android Browser
Contributions:15 PRs, 69 pushes, 56 branches in 1 year 5 months
android-browserbraveandroidbrowser
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