Summary
John Wei is a senior software engineer with nine years of experience blending product-minded engineering and startup grit across Ruby on Rails, TypeScript/JavaScript, and AWS. A former management consultant with dual Stern degrees in finance and management (and a studio art minor), he excels at turning high-level product value into meticulous, maintainable code and reproducible delivery processes. He’s built monetization systems at Nextdoor, led mortgage document automation at Better, and co-founded e-commerce and consumer product startups where he owned architecture, devops, and partner integrations. Comfortable both shipping features and debating product strategy, John pairs philosophical curiosity about users with a bias for execution and clean design. Outside engineering he channels creativity into pottery and backpacking, reflecting an eclectic problem-solving approach rooted in craft and endurance.
9 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Finance & Management, B.S., Finance & Management at New York University - Leonard N. Stern School of Business
The University of Hong Kong (HKU)