Kevin Wang
Senior Engineer at Clerk.com
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKevin Wang is a Senior Engineer based in New York with nine years of experience building developer-facing and platform services at companies like Clerk and HashiCorp. He blends full-stack web engineering with DevOps and analytics—shipping versioned documentation systems, ETL pipelines, ClickHouse-backed product analytics, and LLM-powered developer chat features. A strong contributor to HashiCorp projects (Waypoint, Nomad, Terraform sites), he has deep practical experience implementing versioned docs and site build tooling for major open-source infrastructure. Kevin's non-traditional path—from jazz performance and private barista work to self-taught software engineering—gives him a customer-first approach to product quality and observability. He excels at turning messy cross-cutting problems into production-ready systems and often owns both the API and frontend surface for the features he delivers.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Arts (BA), Jazz Performance (Guitar), Bachelor of Arts (BA), Jazz Performance (Guitar) at The New School
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Github Skills (33)
github-ci10
javascript10
website-development10
css10
typescript10
bash10
nextjs10
terraform10
cicd10
terraformer10
typescript-types10
infrastructure-as-code10
typescripts10
web-development10
githubaction-workflow10
Programming languages (21)
Github contributions (5)
hashicorp/waypoint
Sep 2021 - Jan 2023
A tool to build, deploy, and release any application on any platform.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:64 reviews, 199 commits, 40 PRs in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily focused on front-end development, specifically contributing to the website component of the `waypoint` project. Their work involved refactoring and updating the documentation pages, as shown by changes to the `commands`, `docs`, and `plugins` pages, including the addition of a version selector. The user also implemented versioned documentation functionality and made modifications to the project's Next.js configuration.
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hashicorp/terraform-website
Jan 2022 - Oct 2022
Build configuration and partial content for terraform.io
Role in this project:Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 reviews, 59 commits, 104 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Kevin primarily contributed to the website build configuration and content for terraform.io. Their work included implementing versioning logic for the downloads page and integrating the `cdktf` documentation. They also worked on content splitting, converting pages to TypeScript, and adding features to enable versioned documentation. The contributions spanned across multiple areas, including front-end and build configurations.
build-configurationpartialpartial-contentterraform
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