Kevin Wang
Founder & Chairman at FOSSA
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Wang is a developer-tools entrepreneur and founder with 13 years of experience building products that help teams manage open source risk, compliance, and dependency health. As Founder and former CEO of FOSSA he scaled a company focused on automating remediation and third‑party risk for developer teams, and now serves as Chairman and advisor to open source founders and investors. He blends hands-on engineering—contributing full‑stack fixes and UI improvements to projects like Cloudera’s Hue—with startup grit from early ventures like TLDRLegal and a Thiel Fellowship. Based in New York and Berkeley‑educated in Computer Science, Kevin is obsessed with “Dependency Heaven,” a thread that ties his product strategy to practical developer tooling and open source stewardship.
13 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts (B.A.) Computer Science at University of California, BerkeleyIllinois Mathematics and Science Academy
Github Skills (8)
front-end-development10
sql10
database9
query-builder9
ui-design9
autocomplete9
databases9
javascript8
Programming languages (17)
Github contributions (5)
cloudera/hue
May 2013 - Aug 2013
Open source SQL Query Assistant service for Databases/Warehouses
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:141 commits, 1 issue in 3 months
Contributions summary:Kevin's contributions primarily focused on improving the user interface and fixing configuration alignment issues in the Hue project. They made changes to the Pig, Oozie, Beeswax, Filebrowser, and Jobsub applications, updating action icons and other UI elements. Additionally, they addressed a configuration alignment issue related to the dump_config.mako template, showing a focus on both frontend and backend aspects of the project.
querysql-editormysqlassistantsql
xizhao/optimistic
Jul 2015 - Oct 2017
Contributions:16 commits, 4 PRs, 12 pushes in 2 years 3 months
asynchronousjavascriptupdatesoptimisticimmutable
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