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Alexander Wong

software for climate

Meeting new energy demands with renewable energy, and building the future of weather monitoring.

I want to solve climate problems.

It started in university when I minored in ecological economics and learned about the full ecological cost of humanity's existence. What stood out to me were the externalities our economies ignore.

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 tangent at Kount, where I learned enterprise software engineering while building identity and fraud solutions at scale. I joined as an IC and left as Staff running a team of twelve. The work taught me hard lessons like the importance of regular feedback from real customers and how to charge through compliance to get to the fun stuff!

I stepped away in 2024 to care for my mother who spent her last years fighting cancer. After travelling to emotionally reset, I have clarity on what I want to spend this new chapter of my career on.

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 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.
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.
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.
  • Navigated the Equifax–Kount M&A (and tech stack shuffle), supporting peer teams along the way.
  • Championed shift-left security with the cloud platform team: compliance baked in by default.
2020 Senior Software Engineer
  • Wrote core business logic for digital identity services. Built front-end and back-end SDKs 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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