Lei Wang
CTO at Torpago
Palo Alto, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolLei Wang is a seasoned technology leader and CTO with 17 years building production-grade, scalable infrastructure and consumer-facing platforms from Palo Alto. He co-founded Wishlife, leading engineering on video products using Clojure, Swift, React, GraphQL, WebRTC and Kubernetes, and now runs the engineering effort at Torpago to build a modern credit card and spend management platform. His background includes leading major migrations and optimization efforts at SuccessFactors—introducing Git, moving to SAP HANA, reducing build times by over 50%, and contributing to patented innovation—demonstrating both deep systems expertise and operational rigor. Comfortable across backend, frontend, and cloud-native tooling, he blends hands-on implementation with team leadership and process improvements. Trained with a Master's in Computer Science from the Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences and an early entrepreneurial track record, he brings an engineer-founder mindset to fintech infrastructure.
17 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Master Computer Science, Master Computer Science at Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of SciencesBachelor Geophysics, Bachelor Geophysics at Yangtze University
Github Skills (200)
exporter10
api10
elisp10
babashka10
gitbook10
user-interface10
frontend10
messaging10
declarative10
graphql-tools10
query-language10
full-text-search10
org-mode10
graphql10
markdown10
Programming languages (15)
Github contributions (5)
tendant/blog.leiwang.info
Oct 2017 - Oct 2020
Random Stuff
Contributions:1 PR, 50 pushes in 3 years
tendant/ring-exceptions
Oct 2019 - Nov 2021
Wrap exceptions for ring handler
Contributions:2 PRs, 22 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 1 month
handlerexceptionsringwrap
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