Nathan Wang
Research Engineer at Cursor
Cupertino, California, United States
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Top SchoolNathan Wang is a research engineer specializing in systems and machine learning engineering with 11 years of hands-on experience and current work building coding models at Cursor. A CS student at MIT and 4x USACO Finalist, he co-created the widely used cpinitiative/usaco-guide and co-founded the Competitive Programming Initiative, blending competitive programming rigor with practical tooling. His background spans low-latency systems, LLM inference, and performance optimization—from writing Rust real-time I/O for Modal to quantizing and accelerating LLMs with custom CUDA/Cutlass kernels. He’s contributed test and QA improvements to high-profile open-source projects like gVisor and has repeatedly delivered pragmatic infrastructure and performance wins in internships at Hudson River Trading and others. Colocated in Cupertino, Nathan combines deep systems engineering with ML research instincts and a knack for shipping developer-facing tooling that measurably improves workflows.
11 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
De Anza CollegeBachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyStanford Online High SchoolHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Monta Vista High School
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (20)
testing10
linux10
kernel10
go10
firebase10
ffmpeg9
container9
python9
build-automation8
cicd8
dockers7
docker7
pytorch6
batch-normalization6
pre-trained-model6
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
cpinitiative/usaco-guide
Jun 2020 - Dec 2022
A free collection of curated, high-quality resources to take you from Bronze to Platinum and beyond.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer & DevOps Engineer
Back-end Developer & DevOps EngineerContributions:341 reviews, 2165 commits, 567 PRs in 2 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on enhancing the back-end infrastructure for the project. They made improvements to the build process of the project including setting up and configuring an automated testing pipeline. The user was also responsible for improving the code style and format. They also took on the task of modifying and maintaining the code to implement a Firebase integration.
cpppythonhigh-qualityusacocompetitive-programming
google/gvisor
Jan 2024 - Nov 2024
Application Kernel for Containers
Role in this project:QA Engineer / Test Automation Engineer
QA Engineer / Test Automation EngineerContributions:15 reviews, 9 PRs, 25 comments in 10 months
Contributions summary:Nathan focused on improving the testing infrastructure within the gvisor project. Their contributions included writing new tests and modifying existing ones for the PTY subsystem, ensuring correct behavior in various scenarios like canonical/non-canonical mode switching and handling of special characters (backspace). They also addressed test timeouts, reducing them for faster execution and added a new test for ffmpeg's nvdec functionality.
kernelsandboxcontainersocidocker
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