Summary
Roujia Wen is a software engineer and former CTO with 11 years’ experience building production systems across IoT, control, cloud, and data, most recently co-founding a YC-backed climate tech startup that raised $8M. She has hands-on experience at Amazon Alexa AI developing backend services and ML infrastructure for multilingual speech systems, and a strong research background spanning quantum information, particle physics, and computational fluid dynamics. Comfortable at the intersection of theory and systems, she holds advanced training in applied mathematics and theoretical physics from Cambridge and has built a computer from first principles (hardware, assembler, compiler, VM, and OS). Roujia excels in backend, distributed, and high-performance systems and brings a track record of turning deep technical research into production-ready engineering.
11 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences and Computational Sciences, Bachelor’s Degree, Natural Sciences and Computational Sciences at Minerva University
Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, Master's Degree, Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics at University of Cambridge
Chinese, English, Japanese, German