Heli Wang
Senior Software Engineer at LinkedIn
Greater Seattle Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolHeli Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency distributed systems and data platforms, currently contributing to Data and Privacy Infrastructure at LinkedIn. She has a strong background in cloud-native microservices, API gateways, and data engineering from roles at LinkedIn, Microsoft (Azure Communication Services and payout data platform), and Wish, where her search services supported 100M monthly users and 40% of revenue. Heli has repeatedly reduced operational risk and cost—examples include accelerating ETL jobs from 8+ hours to 25 minutes and helping prevent millions in potential mispayments through data reconciliation. Comfortable across languages and stacks (Go, C#, Python, Scala, gRPC, Kubernetes, Spark), she pairs hands-on coding with on-call reliability and cross-team collaboration to drive migrations and service decomposition. Her early research and internships in distributed deep learning, IR, and ML infrastructure reflect a strong foundation in data-intensive systems that informs her production engineering decisions.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 86.73%, ~ GPA 3.77, Bachelor of Computer Science, Computer Science, 86.73%, ~ GPA 3.77 at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (55)
python10
microsoft10
azure-sdk10
azure-functions10
mouse10
sdk10
azure10
interoperability9
dep9
portable9
keyboard9
mxnet9
keras9
julia9
mutation9
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
HeliWang/fp-shirt
Oct 2016 - Mar 2018
Contributions:4 commits, 10 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 5 months
HeliWang/HeliWang
May 2021 - Dec 2023
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 8 months
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