Kwuang Tang
Staff Software Engineer at Surge AI
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolKwuang Tang is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building systems from 0→1 and scaling them to production at companies like Ramp, MongoDB, Datadog, and most recently Surge AI. He spans the full stack—React/TypeScript front-ends, Python/Go backends, and cloud-native infra—delivering payments, onboarding flows, developer-experience tooling, and high-throughput transaction processing. At Ramp he moved between roles from core transaction work to risk and growth automation, demonstrating both product-level judgment and systems-level optimization. He mentors and leads engineering efforts, having directed teams for large hackathons and served as Dev Director at VandyHacks and a member of South Park Commons. An active practitioner of pragmatic refactoring and code quality, he contributes to open-source projects such as a TTRPG town generator where he focused on maintainability and data improvements. Based in New York, he combines hands-on shipping with an eye for developer ergonomics and scalable architecture.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at Vanderbilt University
English
Github Skills (7)
procedural-generation10
javascript10
generator10
twine10
dnd-kit9
dnd-tools9
refactoring9
Programming languages (24)
Github contributions (5)
ryceg/Eigengrau-s-Essential-Establishment-Generator
May 2019 - May 2019
A town generator that is suitable for out of the box play in any fantasy TTRPG setting.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:23 commits, 17 PRs, 24 comments in 3 days
Contributions summary:Kwuang primarily focused on refactoring and improving the code quality of the town generator. Their contributions include refactoring JavaScript files, fixing bugs in the age and GeneralStoreRenders functionalities, and replacing `var` with `let` for better code maintainability. They also updated and modified the `miscData.js` file, indicating a focus on enhancing the generator's data and functionality.
dungeonsanddragonsrandom-generationdmgeneratordnd
cktang88/cktang88
Jul 2020 - Mar 2025
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 9 months
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