Lykaio Wang
www.lykaio.com
hi@lykaio.com
Objective
Experienced and passionate leader in software engineering looking for a challenging opportunity in a company where innovation and creative vision are key ingredients of their identity.
Traits
- Strategic Thinker
Ability to align technical goals with business objectives, ensuring sustainable growth and seamless execution across projects.
- Results-Driven
Focused on delivering measurable outcomes, optimizing processes, and continuously improving team performance to meet and exceed expectations.
- Excellent Communicator
Natural charisma in both written and verbal communication, effortlessly bridging the gap between technical details and non-technical understanding.
- Battle Hardened
Comprehensive expertise encompassing all stages of software development lifecycle, including design, development, testing, deployment, scaling, monitoring, security and compliance.
- Diverse Expertise
Well versed in JS, TypeScript, Python, Ruby, and and their technical ecosystems, with a profound understanding of emerging technology trends and the larger technical landscape.
Experiences
- Developed and communicated the engineering team's vision, goals, and strategies in alignment with the company's overall objectives
- Collaborated with other team leads and senior executives to ensure engineering efforts supported cross-functional initiatives
- Recruited, hired, onboarded, and retained top engineering talent, providing strong leadership, mentorship, and guidance to the engineering team
- Oversaw the planning, execution, and delivery of engineering projects, ensuring they were on time, within budget, and met quality standards
- Regularly updated the board of directors and executive leadership on engineering team activities, progress, challenges, and strategic initiatives
- Defined and maintained the technical roadmap, architecture, and technology stack for Override's technological product offerings
- Continuously improved engineering processes, workflows, and methodologies to enhance efficiency, scalability, and productivity
- Identified and assessed technical risks and challenges, and proactively developed strategies to mitigate them
- Coordinated cross-functional teams to align technical strategies with business goals, ensuring successful project delivery.
- Advanced front-end engineering standards and mentored engineers across skill levels.
- Guided the technical roadmap, balancing short-term goals with long-term scalability and performance needs.
- Conducted code reviews, ensuring adherence to engineering standards and fostering a culture of continuous improvement.
- Built, monitored, and maintained Doximity’s core data analytics platform, improving system reliability and enabling data-driven decision-making for a large user base.
- Cached, optimized, and developed systems that handle millions of operations per day using GraphQL and Apollo client
- Directed the design and development of Talentfit AI’s core product offerings, data infrastructure and cloud implementations
- Provided the leadership team with key technology insights, shaping product strategies that aligned with business goals and accelerated innovation
- Sourced, interviewed, hired, and managed engineers, building a high-performing team that drove key initiatives and company growth.
- Mentored engineers and established automated workflows, quality controls, monitoring, alerting and various other systems
- Pitched to investors, clients, and other stakeholders
- Helped lead, manage, inspire and grow a product-driven team of 30+ engineers while ensuring smooth delivery and continuous improvement
- Managed stakeholders and dependencies, work closely with the product counterparts on solutions planning, design and implementation
- Provided technical leadership and supported the development of team members through code reviews and personal feedbacks
- Made architectural decisions, contributed to work priorities, spearheaded the documentation and learnings from incidents
- Lead the development of core compliance tooling used across the organization worldwide
- Actively promoted best coding practices and design patterns across the team and help standardized a front end development pattern
- Worked on Coinbase’s main repository, improved code quality and provided feedback to data engineers and other teams
- Mentored junior engineers and ensured smooth on-boarding and knowledge sharing processes
- Hosted one on one mentoring sessions with students on basic topics such as HTML, CSS and Javascript, to more advanced topics like React, Reactive Native, D3, Continuous Integration and Miroservices architecture
- Supported students and their career goals by providing practical guidance on networking, interviewing, continuous learning, engineering principles, design, UX and various other topics
- Provided User Experience instructions and feedback on student’s capstone projects and personal portfolios to increase its presentibility and student’s job-readiness
- Engaged students over email, slack and video chat and coordinate with program managers and other instructors to make sure students are on track to attain their personal, academic and educational goals
- Lead the front end development of the company’s flagship data driven, machine learning application
- Delegated engineering and design tasks to internal team members as well as external agencies
- Administered project progress by communicating with team members and provide guidance when needed
- Designed and architected charts, graphs, raster and vector maps and other complex data visualizations
- Formalized refactor workflows, testing standards and quality review processes for continuous deployment
- Optimized GeoJson zonal summary mapping performance to provide a low latency user experience
- Collaborated with project manager, data scientist, back end developer and senior management for co-assistance and reporting
- Collaborate with engineers, QA, design and C*O to prioritize development needs and construct development workplan
- Lead development of company’s mobile applications on both iOS and Android using React and React Native
- Provide technical consultation to CTO and create strategies to incrementally integrate into existing infrastructure, tech stack, workflows and engineering procedures
- Actively engage with the Quality Assurance team, reduce noise in feedback loop by de-prioritizing non mission critical feedbacks and ensured high-value feedbacks are piped to respective functional teams
- Perform code reviews, organize developer 1-on-1 sessions and lead informal dev talk sessions to promote healthy engineer culture and team collaboration
- Created concept models, heuristic reviews, sitemaps, process flows, wireframes and prototypes
- Partnered with UI designers, content mangers and audio engineers to reconstruct information architecture, navigations, process flows and audio content into beautiful and easy-to-use business solutions
- Spearheaded the development of Lingly’s web learning platform and mobile clients using React / Native
- Managed AB testing for Lingly’s landing pages in preparation for application launch
- Defined testing parameters, prepared prototypes, recruited users, facilitated tests and reported results
- Helped improve content creation process by redesigning and automating the audio production, post-processing, translating and quality assurance workflows
- Facilitated client meetings to discuss project scopes and development costs
- Scheduled project milestones and coordinated with clients on any proposed changes or challenges
- Collaborated with designers to create intuitive interactions and executable wireframes and mockups
- Developed dynamic applications powered by templating engines like EJS, mustache and handlebars
- Architected web applications in a MV* pattern using Ruby on Rails and Django
- Built stateless RESTful APIs for desktop, mobile and portable device consumption