Senior Software Engineer Backend, Full-Stack & Ai Engineering

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ANDREW WANG

SENIOR SOFTWARE ENGINEER BACKEND, FULL-STACK & AI ENGINEERING

San Francisco, CA +1-209-***-****

SUMMARY

Senior software engineer with 12+ years at Alchemy, Twitch, and TubeMogul across scalable backend systems, full-stack products, and AI agent integrations. Former Twitch technical lead with experience in creator products, blockchain data services, and internal dashboards. TECHNICAL SKILLS

Languages: Python, Go (Golang), Java, C#, Rust, C++, JavaScript, TypeScript, SQL Frontend & visualization: React, Next.js, Angular, HTML5, CSS, Tailwind CSS, D3.js; data analysis and visualization

Backend & APIs: REST, Dropwizard, Node.js, FastAPI, Spring Boot, Laravel, Symfony, Django, Flask,

.NET Core, GraphQL, gRPC, WebSockets

Data & security: MySQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, Hive, Redis, Kafka, OAuth 2.0, JWT Delivery & operations: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions, IaC, Terraform, Ansible, pytest, JUnit, OpenTelemetry

Cloud: AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Heroku Generative AI: LLMs, RAG, agentic AI, Transformers, attention mechanisms LLM tooling: OpenAI/Anthropic APIs, LangChain, LangGraph, LlamaIndex, MCP, tool calling, structured outputs

Retrieval: Embeddings, chunking, hybrid search, reranking, pgvector, FAISS Machine learning: PyTorch, Hugging Face Transformers, NumPy, pandas; CNNs, RNNs, autoencoders, VAEs, GANs, Stable Diffusion; LoRA/QLoRA

MLOps, evaluation & serving: Ragas, LangSmith, Langfuse, MLflow, vLLM; machine-translation system evaluation

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Alchemy Senior Software Engineer, Data Services Jul 2023 - Present

- Contributed to Cortex from the Data Services team, supporting an RPC and Data API platform that uses intelligent routing and predictive scaling to serve blockchain data to developer applications.

- Partnered with engineering, infrastructure, go-to-market (GTM) teams, and customers to identify high-value data use cases and prioritize roadmap investments, translating complex blockchain infrastructure requirements into scalable developer products.

- Built internal admin dashboards and monitoring charts to present system metrics and support internal workflows.

- Contributed to on-chain AI agent initiatives that provide structured blockchain state, transaction history, and token balances as context for agent decisions, connecting Data Services capabilities to automated workflows.

- Spearheaded MCP-based integration of blockchain Data Services, enabling AI assistants and coding agents to discover and invoke real-time on-chain data APIs directly from agent workflows. 2 / 2

ANDREW WANG EXPERIENCE CONTINUED

Twitch Senior Software Engineer Dec 2016 - Jun 2023

- Led technical design and rollout of Guest Star, a browser-based experience enabling streamers and moderators to bring other Twitch users into live broadcasts.

- Served as technical lead for creator-facing Promotions products across Twitch surfaces, enabling creators to promote their channels; designed and implemented supporting systems for tens of millions of daily users.

- Designed and delivered backend services for Twitch's IRL category, supporting everyday-life streams and conversations beyond gameplay and contributing to 41 million additional quarterly viewing hours.

- Improved scalability of chat and notification services, increasing peak throughput by 13% while maintaining latency and availability targets.

- Built internal admin dashboards and monitoring charts, providing internal users with views of system metrics.

- Mentored engineers and guided technical design and code reviews, improving delivery predictability and code quality.

- Developed backend software for the Video Ad Experience team and Twitch integration tools enabling AI agents to interact through reusable tool actions.

TubeMogul Software Engineer, Machine Learning Jul 2014 - Nov 2016

- Contributed software engineering to the Optimizations team within the Machine Learning organization.

- Helped add Facebook and Instagram video buying to TubeMogul, enabling advertisers to purchase and manage video campaigns across both social platforms. EARLIER ENGINEERING & RESEARCH EXPERIENCE

TubeMogul Software Engineer Intern, RTB / Machine Learning Jun - Aug 2013 Built ML analysis tools and browser-based visualizations with Hive, Python/Java, MySQL, Dropwizard REST, and JavaScript/D3.js.

Turner Broadcasting AMPT Emerging Tech Intern Jun - Aug 2012 Developed mobile and Facebook apps for NBA, TNT, and HLN using C#, Java, and HTML5. Microsoft Research Research Intern Jun - Aug 2011 Built C# translation analysis tools and evaluated Moses across datasets; work documented at IWSLT 2011.

EDUCATION

University of California, Berkeley Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science 2011 - 2014

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