Summary
Wayne C is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with over a decade of experience building scalable platform and infrastructure systems across Box, Facebook, Roblox, Google, and Waymo, currently focused on commercialization and research-driven engineering. He has a strong backend pedigree—designing APIs, rate limiting, push notification systems, and scaling endpoints from tens of thousands to millions of items—while also driving observability and security efforts. Comfortable across languages from Java and Python to C/C++ and Verilog, Wayne pairs systems-level rigor with product-oriented features that improved performance and reduced error rates dramatically. Fluent in Mandarin and an accomplished 6-dan Go player, he brings strategic thinking and pattern recognition honed both in engineering and competitive board play.
11 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, B.S., Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley
Mission San Jose High School
BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences, BS, Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at UC Berkeley
English, Chinese, Japanese