Paul Wang
Senior Software Engineer at Reddit, Inc.
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Summary
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Top SchoolPaul Wang is a Senior Software Engineer with nine years of experience building high-performance backend platform services, currently contributing to Reddit after driving platform reliability and scalability at Square. He has a strong Java and Go bias and a proven track record at large-scale organizations including Amazon and Square, with hands-on experience in microservices, message systems (Kafka/RabbitMQ), and DevOps toolchains. Comfortable across the stack from Spring Boot services to operational automation, he focuses on pragmatic, production-first engineering that improves reliability and product impact. His background in computer engineering and early research work in GIS and instrumentation shows a blend of rigorous analytical thinking and systems-level curiosity. Paul often surfaces practical optimizations that reduce operational toil while enabling teams to move faster.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering, Engineer’s Degree, Computer Engineering at University of Toronto
Github Skills (8)
javascript4
css4
commerce4
ecommerce3
legend2
zelda2
verilog1
hardware1
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
phosphores/ECE241-final-project
Nov 2016 - Nov 2016
Contributions:1 PR, 35 pushes, 1 branch in 9 days
sectionszeldahardwarelegendlegend-of-zelda
phosphores/NLPSummarizerExtension
Feb 2018 - May 2019
Contributions:2 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 3 months
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