Wilson 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.
7 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Exchange Semester, Exchange Semester at Copenhagen Business School
International Baccalaureate Diploma, International Baccalaureate Diploma at Richmond Secondary School
Bachelor of Arts - BA Honors Business Administration (HBA), Bachelor of Arts - BA Honors Business Administration (HBA) at Ivey Business School at Western University
Basic Track School of Design Thinking, Basic Track School of Design Thinking at Hasso Plattner Institute
Master's degree Computer and Information Technology, Master's degree Computer and Information Technology at University of Pennsylvania
BA Management and Organizational Studies Minor in Writing Studies, BA Management and Organizational Studies Minor in Writing Studies at Western University
SPARC 2021 – A project to help facilitate mock technical interviews between students of the UPenn MCIT Program. Built with Typescript / React / Express / Prisma / PostgreSQL.
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A resource for students to accompany CIT-594 (Data Structures & Software Design)
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