Open to work in San Francisco

Alexander Wong

software for climate

Building adaptive cloud infrastructure
for the energy transition.

I want to accelerate the energy transition.

I stepped away from work in 2024 to care for my mother through her last years fighting cancer. After taking time to emotionally reset, I have clarity on what I want to spend this new chapter of my career on.

My drive to tackle systemic challenges in energy and sustainability started in university when I minored in ecological economics and learned about the full ecological cost of humanity's existence.

My journey as a software engineer began at Accenture's innovation hub in Singapore where I prototyped for the industries that decarbonization has to transform: oil and gas, mining, utilities, agriculture. I came out of it seeing "the art of the possible" for responding to climate change.

Covid sent me on a four year side quest at Kount, where I joined as an IC and left as Staff running a team of twelve. I leveled up my software engineering by building identity and fraud products at scale. I learned hard lessons about enterprise-grade reliability for distributed systems and how to shift-left to architect for security and compliance.

Now I'm in San Francisco, looking for the right job.

2024

Fellow

Climatebase

Leading technical capstone projects and coordinating monthly community events.

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2026 Niobia AI Product Advisor
  • Distilled product capabilities into website positioning of electrochemical analysis agent for battery R&D.
2025 Grove Software Architect
  • Designed onboarding and authentication flows with Plaid integration for micro-investing in verified tree planting.
2025 Nui Software Architect
  • Designed multi-tenant system with permissions-aware RAG enabling human-in-the-loop agentic workflows for blue carbon RFP processing.
2025 Carbon Foodprint Project Lead
  • Prototyped Flutter app to quantify, track, and visualize carbon efficiency of nutrition and food waste.
  • Built Supabase backend integrating external APIs to process meal data through a carbon accounting model aggregating LCA data across Scope 1-3 agricultural emissions.
2020

Engineering Lead, Digital Identity

Kount, an Equifax Company

Steered the Identity as a Service product from proof-of-concept to production. Joined as first hire on the team, left leading twelve semi-remote engineers.

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2022 Staff Engineer
  • Architected Identity as a Service: embedded SSO with verified identity and consent for 100M monthly users.
  • Led twelve engineers through a multi-quarter GCP-to-AWS migration onto Terraform/Kubernetes, navigating the Equifax–Kount M&A without stalling delivery.
  • Stood up DataDog monitoring and alerting; baked compliance into the cloud platform by default.
2020 Senior Software Engineer
  • Built front-end and back-end SDKs and core business logic for embedded SSO.
  • Designed SDK-driven OAuth/OIDC and Identity Proofing flows (50+ permutations, NIST 800-63 compliant) with enhanced auth: Passkeys/WebAuthn, DPoP.
  • Built the dev-experience foundations: API contracts, CI/CD, observability, design system.
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2018

Software Engineer, Natural Resources

Accenture Innovation Hub

Sparked new client business across O&G, utilities, mining, agriculture, and transportation.

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  • Engineered 10+ prototypes using agile principles and design thinking.
  • Simulated a distributed energy marketplace showcased at a regional energy summit.
  • Built multilingual voice agent (like ChatGPT voice mode) and extended-reality interface.
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2014
McGill University

Major: robotics, machine learning
Minor: ecological economics, embodied energy analysis
Thesis: Building trust in human-machine interactions, published at IEEE CRV 2019

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