Calvin Wang
Founding Engineer at Adapt API
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolCalvin Wang is a founding engineer and San Francisco–based software engineer with eight years building cloud-native back-end systems and full-stack products. He has a track record across early-stage startups and stealth projects, most recently founding Adapt API after roles at Omneky, Hearth, and contributors to cost-focused tooling like OpenCost. His open-source contributions include enhancing GCP integrations and adding load balancer cost metrics to a popular Kubernetes cost-monitoring project, reflecting a specialty in cloud billing, observability, and infrastructure metrics. A UC Berkeley graduate in Computer Science and Economics, he blends product-minded engineering with data-aware systems design and a penchant for shipping measurable improvements to cost and telemetry pipelines.
8 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & Economics Double Major, Bachelor of Arts - BA Computer Science & Economics Double Major at University of California, BerkeleyMillburn High School
Github Skills (15)
kubernetes10
go10
prometheus10
cost-optimization10
kubernetes-pods10
gcp10
fins9
co9
backend9
cloud-infrastructure9
load-balancer9
infrastructure9
azure4
aws4
microsoft-azure4
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
opencost/opencost
Sep 2020 - Oct 2020
Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs
Role in this project:
Back-end Engineer
Back-end EngineerContributions:5 reviews, 17 commits, 8 PRs in 1 month
Contributions summary:Calvin primarily contributed to the cost monitoring features of the OpenCost project. They focused on enhancing the cloud provider integrations, specifically Google Cloud Platform (GCP), by updating the API call to include currency code, defaulting to USD if not provided, and integrating load balancer pricing. The user implemented and integrated a new Prometheus metric for load balancer costs, which involved modifying existing code and creating new data structures. The user also made improvements to existing pricing methods across multiple cloud providers.
gcpcost-optimizationfinopskubecostcost-allocation
kubecost/partner-charts
Nov 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:4 PRs, 13 pushes, 2 branches in 22 days
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