Peixian Wang
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolPeixian Wang is a senior software engineer based in New York with 11 years of experience modernizing and maintaining complex backend systems. Known as "the Lorax for legacy code," Peixian has a knack for rescuing aging codebases and bringing pragmatic, well-tested improvements across languages like C++, Go, and Python. She has contributed to production-critical systems at Bloomberg (multi-asset risk and NLP), Datadog (cloud metrics on AWS/GCP/Azure), Vimeo (video delivery), and currently at Sleeper and WhatsApp. Comfortable in both startup and enterprise environments, she blends deep systems-level understanding with product-minded engineering to reduce technical debt while improving performance and observability. Peixian holds a BS from UIUC and a master’s from NYU, and her career shows a steady focus on data- and reliability-sensitive backend work that quietly powers large-scale consumer and financial services.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Master's degree at New York UniversityUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
English, Arabic, Chinese
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Github Skills (87)
vimeo-api10
resumable-upload10
whatsapp10
resumable10
cassandra-driver10
tus10
emacs9
golang9
database-connection9
proxy9
vim9
chat9
cassandra9
elixir9
voip9
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
peixian/peixian.github.io
Aug 2018 - Apr 2025
Contributions:1215 pushes, 1 branch in 6 years 8 months
peixian/rosa
Jun 2018 - Jan 2024
Contributions:17 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 7 months
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