Summary
Ning W is an engineering manager with 13 years of experience building and scaling distributed systems across cloud and blockchain domains, currently leading teams at Coinbase to deliver real-time data infrastructure, ledger services, and integrations for 60+ blockchain protocols. He incubates 0-to-1 products—driving innovations like x402 payment protocol, cbBTC, and Bitcoin Lightning as a payment rail—while aligning engineering, product, compliance, and executive stakeholders to ship day-1 asset launches. Previously at Microsoft he architected and delivered core network services for Azure, spanning VPN, Virtual Network, ExpressRoute, NAT, and Virtual WAN from orchestration down to kernel-level components. He pairs deep distributed-systems and protocol expertise with a PhD-level research background to translate complex technical risk into highly reliable, auditable cloud services. An uncommon thread in his career is moving between scientific R&D and large-scale productization, enabling pragmatic pipelines that serve both research and production needs.
13 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Computer Science at Texas A&M University