Wilson Lau
Senior Software Engineer at Mem
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolWilson Lau is a senior software engineer and former startup founder with seven years of experience building full-stack products from zero to one, currently shipping features at Mem. He blends indie-hacker grit—having co-founded Vitalere and led product development—with professional engineering roles across Mercari and Moon Creative Lab, specializing in frontend-to-backend delivery. With a Master’s in Computer and Information Technology from UPenn and a background in business from Ivey, he bridges product strategy and execution fluently. Based in Old Toronto, he’s comfortable iterating quickly on user-facing features while grounding decisions in business impact and design-thinking principles learned at Hasso Plattner. Notably, his career arc reflects a repeatable pattern: launch, learn, and scale practical software solutions.
8 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Semester, Exchange Semester at Copenhagen Business SchoolInternational Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Richmond Secondary SchoolBachelor of Arts - BA, Honors Business Administration (HBA), Bachelor of Arts - BA, Honors Business Administration (HBA) at Ivey Business School at Western UniversityBasic Track, School of Design Thinking, Basic Track, School of Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner InstituteMaster's degree, Computer and Information Technology, Master's degree, Computer and Information Technology at University of PennsylvaniaBA, Management and Organizational Studies, Minor in Writing Studies, BA, Management and Organizational Studies, Minor in Writing Studies at Western University
English, Chinese, French, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (27)
software-design9
react8
firebase8
data-structure7
nextjs7
data-structures7
material-ui6
typescript6
contract5
postgresql4
environment-variables4
sparc4
prisma4
blockchain3
vue3
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
mcitcentral/mcitcentral
Nov 2020 - Jan 2023
A course reviews site for the UPenn MCIT Program. Built with Typescript / React / Next.js / MaterialUI / Firebase.
Contributions:4 releases, 6 reviews, 63 commits in 2 years 2 months
firebasematerial-uinextjsreacttypescript
mcitcentral/mcitmocks-ts
May 2021 - Sep 2021
SPARC 2021 – A project to help facilitate mock technical interviews between students of the UPenn MCIT Program. Built with Typescript / React / Express / Prisma / PostgreSQL.
Contributions:27 reviews, 141 commits, 37 PRs in 3 months
postgresqlprismareactsparctypescript
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