Joe Wang
Principal Software Engineer at Microsoft
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJoe Wang is a Principal Software Engineer based in Seattle with nine years of experience building distributed systems, data platforms, and visualization UX at scale. He has held senior engineering roles across Microsoft (twice), Afresh, and the Gates Foundation, blending infrastructure and analytics to make complex systems observable and actionable. Comfortable moving between hands-on implementation and architectural leadership, he currently explores AI-driven tooling at Microsoft. His background includes SRE experience at Google and teaching computer science at Caltech, reflecting strong foundations in systems and pedagogy. A Stanford MS and Caltech BS graduate, he brings both academic rigor and production-hardened judgement to problems that span data pipelines, visualization, and system reliability. Notably, he repeatedly returns to Microsoft-scale challenges, suggesting a knack for solving large, interdisciplinary engineering problems.
8 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Western Reserve AcademyCalifornia Institute of TechnologyMaster of Science (M.S.), Computer Science, Master of Science (M.S.), Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (79)
telegraf10
xpath10
monitoring10
golang10
json10
kafka10
agent10
time-series10
modbus10
mqtt9
grafana9
influxdb9
kubernetes-service9
docker9
prometheus9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
microsoft/CorrelationVector-Go
Apr 2018 - Dec 2018
CorrelationVector-Go provides a reference Go implementation of the CorrelationVector protocol for tracing and correlation of events through a distributed system.
Contributions:3 commits, 1 PR, 1 push in 7 months
golangdistributedeventsdistributed-systemtracing
j03wang/spark
Mar 2023 - Jun 2023
Apache Spark - A unified analytics engine for large-scale data processing
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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