Summary
Daniel Wang is a software engineer with eight years of experience, currently building millisecond-latency, high-throughput systems at Amazon’s Tier-1 Advertising Core Engine and optimizing distributed architectures that handle billions of requests daily. At AMD, he contributed to semi-custom video encoding for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S, debugging performance across firmware and drivers and automating workflows to speed up development. He is an accomplished educator, having served as Head Teaching Assistant for web development and as Teaching Assistant for parallel programming at the University of Toronto, mentoring 200+ students and coordinating a team of TAs. Based in Mississauga, Ontario, he holds a CS degree from the University of Toronto and brings deep expertise in Java, TypeScript, CUDA, OpenMP, MPI, and AWS, with a strong emphasis on low-latency optimization and security awareness. He combines hands-on engineering with mentorship and enjoys tackling scalable architectures, hardware acceleration, and challenging performance puzzles.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science, Bachelor’s Degree, Computer Science at University of Toronto
St. Aloysius Gonzaga S.S.
Chinese, English