# Brian Wang

**Software Engineer** — San Francisco, CA, United States

> Software engineer at Meta focused on infrastructure, privacy systems, and cross-platform identity. Builds scalable backend systems and internal tools that power Meta's ecosystem.

Career Archetype: **All-Terrain Artisan** (HB-MX) — One of the first All-Terrain Artisans on Saywise

## Links

- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/brianwang1217

## Experience

### Software Engineer, Meta Account Access Credentials Infra, Meta (2021-08 – 2025-03)
Menlo Park, California, United States · Developed core APIs for Meta's cross-app identity platform managing profile data synchronization across the Family of Apps. Reduced Accounts Center avatar loading costs by 11x and resolved a cross-app photo synchronization issue affecting 3.4M daily users through systematic root cause analysis.

### Software Engineering Intern, Communication Platform, Facebook (2020-08 – 2020-11)
Menlo Park, California, United States · Built automation, analytics pipelines, and monitoring systems for an internal advertising platform serving creators. Enabled debugging, failure pattern identification, and improved developer experience through better observability.

### Software Engineering Intern, Dev Tools, Databricks (2020-05 – 2020-08)
San Francisco Bay Area · Developed build intelligence infrastructure for release blocker triage by creating ETL pipelines, enriching CI metadata, and aggregating build and test data to improve failure diagnosis and debugging.

### Software Engineering Intern, Core Data Platforms, PayPal (2019-05 – 2019-08)
San Jose, CA · Built an automated code migration tool to transition services from PayPal's in-house logging framework to OpenTracing, enabling vendor-neutral distributed tracing instrumentation and simplifying debugging across the platform.

### Software Engineering Intern, State Farm ® (2018-05 – 2018-08)
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## Education

### Bachelor of Science - BS in Computer Science and Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (2017-09 – 2021-06)

### Lynbrook High School (2013-01 – 2017-01)

## Skills

Java, Python, C++, C, Database Management System (DBMS), MySQL, MongoDB, Neo4j, R, Git, Hack, JavaScript, GraphQL, PHP, Hive, Presto, PostgreSQL, numpy, scipy, pandas, Spark, AWS

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