Derek Wang

王锟雨 · a.k.a. Rak505

I like designing large systems with a lot of moving parts, biological or technical. I work in both medicine and computer science, usually on problems where the two overlap.

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University of Washington, Computer Science · Applied & Computational Mathematical Sciences, 2021–2025
work
  1. Meta
    Software Engineer, Tech Lead
    Jun 2026 – Sep 2026

    Meta AI Labs. Code generation for performance-constrained environments. One of the youngest tech leads (20) in Meta Applied AI history.

  2. Meta
    Software Engineer, Machine Learning
    Apr 2026 – Jun 2026

    Recommender systems: chaining and feed relevancy.

  3. Amazon
    Software Engineer
    Sep 2025 – Feb 2026

    Customer Data Foundations / AmazonAPI. Worked on a tier-1 backend service. Left to pursue NLP research.

  4. Meta
    Software Engineering Intern
    Jun 2025 – Aug 2025

    AI infrastructure for evaluations.

  5. Paul G. Allen School of CSE
    Teaching Assistant
    Dec 2023 – Jul 2025

    CSE 444 (Database Systems) and CSE 414 (Introduction to Databases). Also handled course logistics.

  6. Amazon
    SDE Intern
    Jun 2024 – Nov 2024

    Stores Media Services.

  7. Seattle Children's
    Software Developer
    Oct 2023 – Apr 2024

    Research tooling.

  8. UW Medicine
    Full Stack Developer
    Nov 2021 – Nov 2022

    Full-stack development and MLOps.

research
  1. Noah's ARK
    Researcher
    Mar 2026 – Aug 2026
  2. Foy Labs
    Researcher
    Winter 2025 – Winter 2026

    Computer vision algorithms for blood-borne diseases.

  3. Paul G. Allen School of CSE
    NLP Researcher
    Mar 2024 – Nov 2024

    Fact verification, commonsense reasoning, and pluralistic alignment in large language models.

  4. Ubiquitous Computing Lab, UW
    Undergraduate Research Assistant
    Oct 2022 – Mar 2024
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