Ashley Wang
Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering at GEICO Tech
Rochester, New York Metropolitan Area United States
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Top SchoolAshley Wang is a seasoned engineering leader with 11 years of experience designing and shipping cloud-native microservices and distributed systems, now a Senior Manager, Staff Software Engineering based in Rochester, NY. She blends hands-on architecture and DevOps expertise with people leadership, having led technical teams at solo.io and now GEICO Tech to deliver scalable, FIPS-compliant releases and multi-cluster Kubernetes solutions. Her background includes low-latency C++ systems at Akamai and Go-based cloud control planes, giving her a rare cross-cutting fluency from edge telemetry to API gateways. Ashley contributes to open-source API gateway work (kgateway) focused on protobuf/gRPC and auth/proxy improvements, reflecting an emphasis on robust API contracts and interservice security. She’s passionate about system resilience, observability, and practical adoption of AI-assisted developer tools to accelerate delivery. Her MIT EECS foundation underpins a pragmatic, engineering-first approach to solving complex infrastructure challenges.
10 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachussetts Institute of Technology
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Github Skills (23)
apidoc10
api10
api-gateway10
protobuffer10
protobuf10
grpc10
envoyproxy9
env9
convoy9
cloud-native9
microservices8
kubernetes-pods8
microservices-application8
kubernetes8
shell6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
kgateway-dev/kgateway
Sep 2019 - Apr 2021
The Cloud-Native API Gateway and AI Gateway
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 17 reviews, 98 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Ashley's commits primarily involve regenerating Protobuf code, indicating a focus on API definitions and data serialization within the project. These changes impact the structure of data exchanged via gRPC, a core technology of the API gateway. The code modifications point to updates in authentication and proxy configurations, and the involvement extends to the supporting file structure within the project.
api-gatewayfeature-richgrpcserverlesslegacy-apps
ashleywang1/ashleywang1.github.io
Apr 2016 - Apr 2022
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 6 years 1 month
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