Summary
Zi Wang is a seasoned engineering leader with over a decade of experience building scalable distributed systems and data-driven products across Google, Uber, Microsoft, and high-growth startups. Most recently he led engineering at Magic Eden to power a fast-growing NFT marketplace and now builds at a stealth AI startup after VP roles at Blackbird Labs. He combines hands-on expertise in large-scale data pipelines, machine learning, and performance-optimized services with a track record of growing and mentoring high-performing teams. Zi’s background spans cloud infrastructure, real-time consumer services, Office and gaming platforms, revealing an ability to translate complex ML and big-data solutions into reliable production systems. He holds an MS in Computer Science and completed executive education at Harvard Business School, bringing both technical depth and business leadership to product-forward engineering. A subtle throughline in his career is repeatedly tackling latency- and scale-sensitive problems—making user experience the north star of engineering trade-offs.
10 years of coding experience