Weihan Wang is a Senior Staff Engineer and manager at Google with a background as a YC founder and former startup executive, blending hands-on engineering with product and operational leadership. He has deep experience across full-stack development, distributed systems, and operating systems, and a track record of evolving complex systems from research to production. His career includes founding AeroFS, leading engineering and product at Smarking, and early systems work at Sun Microsystems and OANDA, reflecting both startup grit and enterprise-scale engineering. An IEEE Senior Member and lifelong learner, he pairs academic training from Waterloo and PhD-level work with practical execution in Silicon Valley and Beijing. Colleagues describe him as a technical visionary who still prefers shipping code and mentoring engineers over staying in the ivory tower.
6 years of coding experience
13 years of employment as a software developer
M.Math, M.Math at University of Waterloo
B.Eng, B.Eng at Beijing University of Technology
PhD Candidate, PhD Candidate at University of Toronto
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