Experience

Four engineering roles, then the teaching and community work I did alongside school. Newest first.

Engineering & community

  1. Software Development Engineer Intern

    Amazon Web Services (AWS) — EC2 Networking (Amazon VPC)

    May 2026 – Aug 2026 · Herndon, VA

    • Built an autonomous Claude Code agent with custom skills that migrated seven production EC2/VPC canaries from Scala to Java and JUnit 5, reducing per-test migration from about one week to about one day, gated on live integration testing.
    • Extended an existing canary framework with AWS SDK v2, CDK, and CloudWatch, adding LIFO resource cleanup, a VPC test suite spanning eight AWS services in us-east-1, and an authentication fix that unblocked CI.
    7 agent-migrated tests~1 week → ~1 day/test8 AWS services

  2. Software Engineer Intern

    University of Maryland (Observatory)

    May 2025 – Sep 2025 · College Park, MD

    • Independently built a full-stack search platform (Python/Flask REST APIs, SQLite, JavaScript front end) giving UMD astrophysicists query and filtering over 50,000+ telescope observation records.
    • Cut data-processing time 75% with a Python ETL pipeline ingesting FITS files.
    • Merged four pull requests to the open-source observatory archive.
    50,000+ records−75% pipeline runtime4 merged PRs

    CCD-data-archive

  3. Quantum Machine Learning Researcher

    University of Maryland (IonQ & NQL partnership)

    Aug 2023 – Jan 2025 · College Park, MD

    • Shipped an open-source quantum NLP text classifier on a four-person team, building the Python pipeline that fed parsed sentences into parameterized quantum circuits (Qiskit, DisCoPy, pytket).
    • Unlocked IonQ quantum-hardware execution via qiskit-ionq backends; the team's enhanced SPSA/Adam/genetic optimizers cut test error from 41% to 4–9% in simulation.
    • Co-built and open-sourced the research artifact and wrote up the comparison methodology.
    4-person teamQiskit/DisCoPy/pytketqiskit-ionq backend

    FIRE-QML-WINNERS-QNLP

  4. Software Engineer Intern

    Washington Software Inc.

    Mar 2022 – Aug 2023 · Gaithersburg, MD

    • Saved ~15 engineering hours weekly by designing an automated presentation-generation system in Python (Selenium, BeautifulSoup) that replaced the manual client-reporting workflow.
    • Replaced recurring manual research and data-gathering across three product teams with modular, reusable Python automation integrated into CI/CD pipelines.
    • Improved reliability with structured logging, retries, error handling, and tests; supported Jenkins CI/CD for consistent releases.
    ~15 hrs/week saved3 product teams

  5. Community & Teaching

  6. Vice President

    Kids For Code

    Dec 2021 – May 2023 · Remote

    • Led curriculum and instructor operations for a Python/JavaScript program serving 3,000+ students.
    • Delivered 400+ lessons and standardized materials to keep instruction consistent across classes.
    • Trained and coordinated 10+ instructors and improved program operations to support 25% enrollment growth.
    3,000+ students400+ lessons

  7. Technical Program Manager

    CodeDay

    Nov 2019 – Dec 2022 · Washington DC–Baltimore Area

    • Ran regional hackathon programs end-to-end, coordinating planning, logistics, and stakeholder communication for 500+ participants.
    • Drove outreach to 200+ schools and secured sponsorships (including Vercel and Brave) to support event delivery.
    • Managed budgets, runbooks, and risk/last-minute changes to keep events reliable and repeatable.
    500+ participants200+ schools

  8. Software Programming Instructor

    Panda Programmer

    Mar – Nov 2022 · Gaithersburg, MD

    • Taught Python, JavaScript, and Scratch to students ages 6–12 through hands-on projects and structured practice.
    • Built lesson plans and adapted pacing/explanations to match each student's level while reinforcing core CS fundamentals.
    • Communicated progress clearly to parents and program staff and helped students build confidence through debugging.
    PythonJavaScriptScratch

Get in touch

I'm looking for Summer 2027 new-grad software engineering roles. Email is the fastest way to reach me, and I can send a full resume on request.

Email meivanwang8989@gmail.com