Alan Wong

• Architecture design of highly available, high throughput, low latency, backend systems
• Creating distributed systems for big data processing, aggregation, and analysis
• Proven capacity to master concepts and technologies through the entire stack
• Active and effective mentor of junior engineers

• Java
• JavaScript (Node.js)
• C# (.NET)
• C & C++
• Perl
• Python
• Ruby (Rails)

• Cross platform development: Linux, Windows, OSX
• Source control: Git, Perforce
• Persistence: Oracle, MySQL, SQLite, S3, DynamoDB, MongoDB
• Standards and frameworks: HTTP, REST, WebSockets, SSL/TLS, WPF

WISErgSoftware Engineer - Redmond, WA - 2015-present

• Hired as the first full-time Software Engineer
• Designed and executed on a ground-up re-architecture of the technology stack
• Migrated from Microsoft Azure to Amazon AWS for cost savings and platform services (e.g. lambda support)
• The re-architected platform provided:
• Real-time operational insight into remotely-connected industrial machinery
• Real-time performance metrics and reporting to drive business decisions
• Increased scalability and data durability as compared to the pre-existing technology stack

Ivy SoftworksSoftware Engineer - Seattle, WA - 2014-2015

• Hired as the second Software Engineer for Atlas, the first product at the Innovation Studio
• Atlas is a product to "remember everything seen on any device and app while providing personalized recommendations"
• Built and prototyped many of the initial UI features using WPF/XAML
• Focused on the backend infrastructure: from core data routing and messaging between services, to a first-cut user authentication service backed by Amazon Dynamo DB, to a prototype persistence store backed by Mongo DB and Amazon S3

Amazon.com Software Development Engineer - Seattle, WA - 2006-2014

Offer Service & Remote Catalog2013-2014

• Enabled the company to compete in Textbook Rentals, a $10B+ industry, by serving as technical lead for re-architecting a Tier-1 system to aid long-term scalability (which at the time, was already handling ~1B transactions/hour)
• Proposed an organization-wide solution to programmatically analyze and validate changes to underlying metadata, and backfill the affected pre-computed results as required
• Provided feedback and drove technical vision with leadership team as a part of the organization's Architecture Task Force

Search Data Aggregation2009-2013

• Reduced $1M+ annual hardware costs for the team, by serving as technical lead for re-architecting core systems to utilize cloud computing resources
• Actively contributed to an event-based pre-computation framework used by 200+ teams within the company
• Improved estimation of project delivery dates, by introducing SCRUM to the team, and initially assuming the SCRUM-master role

Inventory Planning & Control2006-2009

• Reduced shipping costs, by implementing an inventory transfer system where inventory would be predictively forwarded to fulfillment centers closest to the areas in which demand was expected
• Reduced excess inventory in the network, by implementing components of the Delayed Allocation system in which optimal network inventory levels were held to meet customer demand
• Assisted with fulfillment center capacity and labor planning during holiday peak, by running simulations under various predictive parameters

University of Waterloo - Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

Degree: Bachelor of Applied Science, Honours in Computer Engineering