Wei Wang
Technical Lead Manager, Staff Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Wang is a software engineer with 10 years of experience building high-performance backend and full-stack systems, currently contributing to Meta's Quest Store. He has scaled services at Google (Tax Engine supporting up to 1M QPS) and designed an AWS-based file processor at ADP capable of handling 10GB files and 1000 concurrent jobs, demonstrating both low-latency optimization and large-file throughput. His open-source work spans Android system-level projects—improving init timing, power management HALs, bionic random APIs, and recovery-test automation—highlighting a knack for low-level performance and reliability fixes. Comfortable across Java, Python, Scala, and cloud-native tooling, he pairs rigorous academic training (MS CS, PhD physics) with pragmatic engineering to tackle distributed, latency-sensitive problems. Notably, his contributions include reducing tax API latency by ~20% and hardening Android power/audio paths to reduce log noise and improve boot/time behavior.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor's Degree (dropped), ECE, Doctor's Degree (dropped), ECE at Rice UniversityBachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering, Bachelor’s Degree, Electronic Engineering at Beijing Institute of Technology
Chinese, English
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (36)
debugging10
aidl10
c-language10
system-programming10
testing10
low-level10
recover10
gt10
c-programming10
linux-kernel10
recovery10
android-development10
power-management10
enviroment10
kernel10
Programming languages (10)
Github contributions (5)
LineageOS/android_hardware_xiaomi
Mar 2020 - May 2022
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:17 commits in 2 years 2 months
Contributions summary:Wei primarily contributed to the power management system within the LineageOS Android build. Their work involved creating an AIDL extension server and integrating it with the existing power HAL. They also implemented power-related modes and boosts, and refactored the namespace, and improved the overall performance of the system. Furthermore, they addressed several bugs related to power management.
aosp-mirror/platform_system_core
Aug 2016 - Mar 2022
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:526 commits in 5 years 8 months
Contributions summary:Wei primarily worked on the low-level Android system core, specifically focusing on the init process. Their contributions included adding timing logs to identify performance bottlenecks in oneshot and exec_background services. Furthermore, the user addressed bugs and integrated changes to the init scripts, improving system stability and functionality. The user's work also touched on the ADB daemon authentication and USB subsystem.
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