Edward Wang
Systems Engineer at Cloudflare
Oakland, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolEdward Wang is a systems engineer with 10 years of experience building reliable backend and network services, currently focused on infrastructure work at Cloudflare in Oakland. He brings a strong systems and C++ background from internships at Blizzard and practical full-stack backend experience from startup roles, with a history of improving performance, caching, and error handling in production code. Edward has contributed to Cloudflare's open-source pingora library, adding proxy, caching, and conditional request logic that improve real-world network service reliability and decompression handling. Comfortable across games, platform SDKs, and cloud services, he pairs low-level systems thinking with pragmatic product delivery. He studied computer science at Stanford and has a track record of cross-disciplinary collaboration and tool-building that surfaces behind-the-scenes reliability gains.
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Candidate, Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Candidate, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, Spanish
Github Skills (7)
compression10
http10
caching10
proxy10
rust10
back-end-development10
networking10
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
cloudflare/pingora
Aug 2023 - Mar 2025
A library for building fast, reliable and evolvable network services.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:58 reviews, 41 PRs, 19 pushes in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Edward primarily contributed to the development of the `pingora` library, focusing on proxy and caching functionalities. They implemented new filters, added server and client address features to sessions, and improved existing cache mechanisms. The contributions include enhancing error handling, improving the handling of conditional requests, and adding support for un-gzip decompression. These changes directly impact the performance and functionality of the network service.
drcaramelsyrup/project-quasaria
Apr 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:55 PRs, 74 pushes, 55 branches in 4 months
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