Thomas Wang
Software Engineer at Robinhood | CS at Penn
About
As a software engineer with full stack experience, I'm passionate about building beautiful products and writing great code. After graduating from UPenn (undergrad + masters), I've been working in the tech industry gathering a wide range of experiences, from infra at Salesforce to fullstack at Verkada (series D startup). Currently, I'm a product engineer at Robinhood, building the future of personal finance.
Outside of tech, I love films, music, F1 racing, soccer (Real Madrid), and the UFC.
Work Experience
Perplexity AI
Present
Member of Technical Staff
- Incoming member of technical staff on the Agent Capabilities team.
Robinhood
2024 - 2026
Software Engineer - Full Stack
- Built Robinhood Banking 0-to-1 as part of the founding 20-engineer team.
- Delivered Banking product verticals end-to-end across Scala backend and React Native/TypeScript frontend, including joint and child accounts, identity and invitation flows, access controls, account conversions, scheduled and recurring transfers, and debit card experiences.
- Shipped premium credit card upgrade and points-reservation systems, improving credit unit economics by 35% as a point redemption option and extending the float period before reward cost realization.
Verkada
2023 - 2024
Software Engineer - Full Stack
- Launched Verkada Store, the company's first ecommerce app, using Next.js and Golang.
- Enabled customers to browse deals, purchase products, and manage orders directly, reducing time to purchase and increasing purchase volume and profitability.
- Built Concierge, a supply-chain management tool for real-time monitoring and adjustment of Verkada orders, improving operational efficiency and reducing time to ship.
Salesforce
2021 - 2023
Software Engineer - Backend
- Improved reliability and availability across Salesforce's core infrastructure.
- Built backend features and operational improvements for Hadoop, Docker Swarm, Airflow, Postgres, and Jenkins.
Microsoft
2021
Program Manager / Software Engineer Intern
- Designed Azure Storage optimizations to reduce the cost of large-scale data migrations.
- Implemented a latency-based throttling service to reduce noisy neighbor issues.
Education
University of Pennsylvania
2020 - 2021
Masters of Science in Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania
2017 - 2021
Bachelors of Science in Computer Science, Economics; Minor in Mathematics
Languages
Scala
Golang
Python
TypeScript
JavaScript
Java
Bash
SQL
Skills
AWS
React/React Native
Kubernetes
PostgreSQL
Next.js
Airflow
Redis
BigQuery