Jaron Wang
Seattle
Summary
Highly efficient leader and developer with proven ability to deliver complex systems across industry and academia. Proficient in high breadth of fields including distributed systems, machine learning, computer vision, and system architecture. Experienced in rapid execution of technical projects from payment system migrations to ML model deployment. Employs strong systems thinking to identify patterns and connections across domains, synthesizing insights from multiple fields to solve complex problems. Capable of real-time debugging and architectural analysis while maintaining high-velocity execution and delivering scalable solutions.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
Work History
Founding Engineer
Tribe Money Pools
02.2024 - Current
- Lead formal internal design meetings for architecture and feature requirements to meet product timelines and customer feedback.
- Developed comprehensive engineering documents for all projects (API Docs, ERDs, TDRs, Network Diagrams)
- Architected and built fintech platform serving 500+ users with $60k+ transaction volume.
- Built React Native mobile app with TRPC/Bun backend deployed on GCP/Kubernetes
- Designed and implemented event-based compliance framework for high-visibility audits and record-keeping.
- Designed internal risk-scoring system based on extensive behavioral simulations for early detection of malicious actors.
- Designed streamlined processes to reduce transaction costs and user latency.
Graduate Research Assistant
Computation Behavioral Modeling Research Lab
12.2022 - 06.2023
- Worked on generative synthetic trace modeling for mobility datasets based on Deep Gravity Model.
- Evaluated fairness of different generation models and performance using custom fairness features.
- Incorporated temporal data into trace generation and prediction to generate higher accuracy traffic prediction models in federated learning.
Software Engineer
Microsoft (Face API)
01.2021 - 05.2022
- Developed automation tools to improve intake speed of facial recognition data at scale. Increased processing speed by up to 48%.
- Documented tool usage and troubleshooting mechanisms to IT teams to handle data processing without engineer input.
- Utilized Microsoft’s synthetic face pipeline to generate extreme pose faces for quality evaluation and dataset augmentation, increasing long-tail performance by up to 40%.
- Implemented algorithms for improving model fairness across underrepresented minorities at scale.
Computer Vision Lead
Advanced Robotics at the University of Washington
09.2019 - 06.2021
- Lead a team of develop to design, implement, and test computer vision systems for the DJI Robomasters competition.
- Implemented machine learning algorithms in Pytorch and Tensorflow for real-time object detection tasks.
- Researched and implemented state-of-the-art CV research to improve model performance and stability.
- Performed validation and testing of engineering models to support adequacy and reformulated models.
Education
Master of Science - Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Washington
Bothell, WA06.2024
Bachelor of Science - Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences
University of Washington
Seattle, WA08.2020
Skills
- Typescript
- Python
- Java
- C
- C#
Publications
Survey of Federated Learning Models for Spatio-Temporal Applications: https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3666089
Timeline
Founding Engineer
Tribe Money Pools
02.2024 - Current
Graduate Research Assistant
Computation Behavioral Modeling Research Lab
12.2022 - 06.2023
Software Engineer
Microsoft (Face API)
01.2021 - 05.2022
Computer Vision Lead
Advanced Robotics at the University of Washington
09.2019 - 06.2021
Master of Science - Computer Science and Software Engineering
University of Washington
Bachelor of Science - Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences
University of Washington
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