Ziyuan Wang
Software Engineer at Robinhood
Old Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Top SchoolZiyuan Wang is a software engineer with seven years of experience building high-performance backend and distributed systems, currently contributing to Robinhood’s options trading platform after roles at Confluent and Intel. He holds a BASc with high honours and is pursuing an MEng in ECE at the University of Toronto, combining strong academic performance (4.0 in graduate studies) with hands-on systems engineering. At Intel he optimized large-scale pathfinding and routing algorithms in modern C++, cutting runtime and memory through multithreading, pruning, and cache-aware techniques—skills he now applies to cloud-native trading systems. Comfortable working across low-level performance tuning and large distributed architectures, he brings a problem-solving mindset and a research-oriented habit of continually refining heuristics and performance trade-offs. Though active in industry roles, his background includes a Stanford CS summer and ongoing technical curiosity that drives both practical shipping and algorithmic innovation.
7 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, 4.0, Master of Engineering - MEng, Computer Engineering, 4.0 at University of TorontoSummer Student, Computer Science, Summer Student, Computer Science at Stanford University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (20)
json10
avro10
confluent10
schema-validation10
json-schema10
producer10
rest-api10
schema10
protobuf10
kafka-connect9
kafka9
confluent-cloud9
connect8
librdkafka8
golang7
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
Jolie-Ni/Texas-Holdem-Backend
Jan 2023 - Feb 2023
This contains the game flow of Texas Holem and connects to a non-sql database that stores the AI strategy in json format.
Contributions:9 reviews, 22 commits, 10 PRs in 28 days
non-sql-databasetexassql-databasesqlstrategy
jerrywang1010/resume
Feb 2023 - Jun 2023
:page_facing_up::briefcase::tophat: A simple Jekyll + GitHub Pages powered resume template.
Contributions:26 pushes in 4 months
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