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Alexander Wong

Engineering lead who translates business goals into user-centric solutions. Focused on energy storage and decarbonization.

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Mar 2024 – Present
Climatebase

Leading technical capstone projects and coordinating monthly community events.

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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.
Nui Software Architect
  • Designed multi-tenant system with permissions-aware RAG enabling human-in-the-loop agentic workflows for blue carbon RFP generation.
Grove Software Architect
  • Designed onboarding and authentication flows with Plaid integration for micro-investing in verified tree planting.
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Engineering Lead, Digital Identity

Apr 2020 – May 2024
Kount, an Equifax Company
Staff Engineer · Sep 2022 – May 2024
Senior Software Engineer · Apr 2020 – Sep 2022
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Steered development from proof-of-concept to production-ready platform. Built core APIs and services powering Kount 360's Identity Proofing and Account Protection products.

  • Led design and contributed significant code for SDK-driven OAuth/OIDC and Identity Proofing flows (50+ permutations, NIST 800-63 compliant).
  • Integrated fraud mitigation and consent management with embedded WebAuthn/Passkeys into a unified sign-on flow under strict compliance constraints.
  • Built and led a semi-remote team of 12 engineers ($2M budget); bridged security, enterprise architecture, cloud platform, and external vendors.
  • Kept the team shipping through an extremely complex compliance environment.
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Software Engineer, Natural Resources

Oct 2018 – Jan 2020
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 distributed energy marketplace showcased at a regional energy summit.
  • Built multilingual voice agent with LSTM predictive analytics and extended-reality interface.
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B.A.Sc in Cognitive Science (Honours)

Sep 2014 – Jun 2018
McGill University

Robotics, machine learning. Minor in ecological economics and embodied energy analysis. Thesis on human-machine trust published at IEEE CRV 2019.

The arc

Ecological economics and embodied energy analysis at McGill gave me an environmental externalities lens. Accenture's innovation hub in Singapore put me inside O&G, utilities, mining, and agriculture — the industries decarbonization has to transform.

Four years at Kount deepened my product and engineering practice. I stepped away in 2024 to care for a terminally ill parent; that time clarified where I wanted to focus next.

Now in San Francisco, looking for product engineering roles in energy storage and decarbonization.

Education

B.A.Sc in Cognitive Science (Honours) — McGill University, 2018, Montreal

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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