River Wang
Software Developer | Internet Privacy Advocate | LGBTQ+ Ally
Nerd by nature, developer by trade. I specialize in backend systems and ETL pipelines. I have a passion for inclusive software and I am always looking for ways to contribute to the community. When I'm not coding, you can find me hosting board game nights, advocating for internet privacy, or reading! I love everything from sci-fi, to relationship help, and eastern philosophy. I believe software should start with developers who care about the people behind the screen.
💼 Work Experience
J.D. Power
2023 - Present
Software Developer II 2025 - Present
Software Development Intern 2023 - 2024
I’m currently on the Internal Services team, where I work on maintaining and improving the data platform that powers many of J.D. Power’s products and services. My work includes both the ingestion and processing of data through ETLs, as well as the access and presentation of data through APIs and internal tools.
My area of expertise was on VIN-level and Trim-level data, which is used in many of J.D. Power’s automotive products which you can find here !
Java, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, Apache Storm, ETL, Microservices, Cloudflare, Docker, Kubernetes, ANTLR, CassandraDB, MySQL
University of Western Ontario, Department of Economics
2024 - 2025
Research Assistant
I managed a small group of undergraduate research assistants to develop a data pipeline which modernized legacy options trading data from the Berkley Options Database.
Python, PostgreSQL, ETL
University of Alberta, Department of Digital Humanities
2022 - 2023
Research Assistant
My first software job! I developed a Twitter bot that scraped network information from consenting users for a research project about professional networks on Twitter, and an administrative web UI for initiating and monitoring the bot’s data collection process.
Go, Python, Twitter API