Tan Wang
Staff Software Engineer at Pinterest
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTan Wang is a Staff Software Engineer in New York with 11 years of experience building high-impact, production-grade systems and accelerating engineering velocity through AI. At Pinterest he led the adoption of AI coding tools from near-zero to 92% usage and helped author over a quarter of new production code, while also defining the company standard for Model Context Protocol and introducing Bazel remote builds. Prior roles at Instagram and Meta focused on ML infrastructure, measurement tooling, and engineering quality improvements that reduced negative experiences and global CPU costs. He combines hands-on coding, systems design, and cross-org leadership—regularly partnering with org leaders on recruiting and team growth. A Waterloo CS graduate, he has a track record of turning research-grade models and tooling into scalable developer workflows that materially change how teams ship software.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Math, Computer Science, Bachelor of Math, Computer Science at University of Waterloo
Chinese
Github Skills (59)
caching10
python10
packaging10
installer10
pip10
package-installer10
performance-testing9
benchmarking9
bazel9
starlark9
bazel-rules9
scalable9
extensible9
remote-execution8
load-testing8
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
SinOverCos/Kivy-Python---Game-of-Life
Nov 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:11 commits, 23 pushes in 1 year 1 month
SinOverCos/dotvim
Oct 2017 - Oct 2022
Contributions:13 pushes, 1 branch in 5 years 1 month
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