Alex Wang Resume

1. ALEX WANG
615-582-7185 | alexwang99311@yahoo.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/alexwang0311 | Personal Website: alexwang0311.github.io
TECHNICAL SKILLS
• Languages: C#, Java, Python, JavaScript, C++
• Microsoft Technologies and Tools: .NET Core, .NET Framework, SQL Server, Kusto, Blazor Server, Blazor WebAssembly, NCache
• JavaScript Frameworks and Libraries: Node, React, Material UI, D3, Webpack, Babel, Mocha, Chai
• Python Frameworks and Libraries: Scikit-learn, Pandas, NumPy, Streamlit, Plotly
• DevOps Tools: Git, Docker, Kubernetes, CI/CD
• Cloud Services and Database Solutions: Azure, AWS, PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB
• Certifications: AWS Certified Developer Associate, Microsoft Certified: Azure Fundamentals, LFS253: Containers Fundamentals,
LFS258: Kubernetes Fundamentals
WORK EXPERIENCE
Software Engineer II Redmond, WA
Microsoft Apr 2024 - Present
• Working on a cross-functional team of SDEs and SREs to secure, scale, and automate global-scale distributed systems across a
variety of Microsoft Defender products that protect against threats in email, links, file attachments, and collaboration tools.
• Contributing to the development of internal .NET tools and SDKs that streamline logging, monitoring, and alerting processes,
providing highly available, observable, and reliable cloud infrastructures for various applications and workloads.
• Managing and troubleshooting CI/CD pipelines and Kubernetes clusters, ensuring a 24x7 live site support model for the services
that the Defender Engineering System team owns.
Software Engineer, Equity Investment Management Technology Nashville, TN
AllianceBernstein Jun 2021 - Dec 2022, Jun 2023 - Mar 2024
• Maintained and developed new features for a portfolio management system responsible for providing comprehensive portfolio
management functionality and tools to optimize a client’s total holdings across products and countries given a set of investment
constraints.
• Owned solutions through all phases of the software development life cycle, including migrating the system’s backend from C++
and Java to .NET 8 with a service-oriented architecture, developing front-end solutions with Blazor Server, and partnering with
QA to automate and integrate testing efforts.
• Optimized the performance of the system on the server side, including creating a distributed cache middleware with NCache for
the .NET server, leading to a 40% decrease in the .NET server startup time when benchmarked against the legacy server.
Software Engineer, Equity Quantitative Research Nashville, TN
AllianceBernstein Jan 2023 - May 2023
• Assisted the development of a proprietary quantitative equity signal research framework written in Python. The framework
includes statistical tools for financial data analysis, factor model construction, and portfolio performance estimation.
• Proposed and authored a Python module to automate and streamline the maintenance of various data processing pipelines used
by the framework, replacing the original manual workflow.
• Created data dashboards that effectively visualized the correlation between various trading signals and stock returns with Stream-
lit and Plotly.
Software Development Intern, Private Client Technology Nashville, TN
AllianceBernstein Jun 2020 - Aug 2020
• Designed and developed a web service responsible for processing and sending out push notifications to over 5000 client iOS
devices daily and managing the feedback messages received from Apple Notification Center Service.
• Created RESTful API endpoints for the service in .NET Core with C# and implemented robust security mechanisms for the end-
points by incorporating JWT authentication.
• Performed quality assurance by creating testing scripts in Postman, configured CI/CD pipeline on Azure, and successfully deployed
the service by the end of the internship.
PERSONAL PROJECTS
• WASM-GPT: Run gpt-2 models natively in a browser with Blazor WASM.
• InkBlotz: 2D platform game with a creative puzzle-solving twist made in the VandyHacks VI Hackathon.
• Medium: Personal technical blog where I write about various programming and math-related topics.
EDUCATION BACKGROUND
• Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN
Bachelor of Science, Computer Science and Applied Mathematics
• Cumulative GPA: 3.8/4.0, Cum Laude