Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" Wáng

Hal Wang has a diverse work experience in various roles and companies. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" started their career in 2006 as a Software Engineer at Qimonda and then worked as a Software Engineer at IBM from 2009 to 2011. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" pursued a PhD at Xi'an Jiaotong University from 2011 to 2015, during which they developed web scraping and SOCKS client packages.

After completing their PhD, Hal joined Appcoach in 2015 as the Backend Development Lead, where they led the development of Appcoach Market, a scalable and fault-tolerant ad network. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" implemented various technologies like Kafka, MongoDB/BadgerDB, and Nginx.

In 2018, Hal worked as a Senior Architect at ByteDance, where they optimized the Discovery Page of Tik Tok/Musical.ly by migrating it from Python to Go. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" achieved significant improvements in latency and error rates. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" then joined StorageOS as a Senior Developer, where they contributed to the development of enterprise persistent storage for containers and designed frameworks and documentation.

Hal later joined Ninety Percent of Everything in 2018 as a Principal Engineer and was responsible for various engineering tasks until 2022. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" worked as a Staff Engineer at InfoSum from 2022 to 2023. Currently, Hal is working as a Freelance Developer at Venatus.

Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" Wáng completed their education in the field of engineering and information technology. Hǎi-Liàng "Hal" obtained a Bachelor of Science (BS) degree in Information Engineering from Xi'an Jiaotong University, where they studied from 2000 to 2004. Following this, they pursued a Master of Science (MS) degree in Systems Engineering from the same university, graduating in 2007.

In addition to their formal education, Hal Wáng has also acquired several certifications. In June 2023, they obtained a certification in "Build a User Authentication Web App With Python and Django" from Udemy. In May 2022, they obtained a certification in "Data Privacy, General Data Protection Regulation & Information Security V2" from Traliant. Furthermore, in January 2019, they earned the "Certified Scrum Product Owner® (CSPO®)" certification from Scrum Alliance.