Gary Wang

swe @ stripe

Seattle, Washington, United States

About

do something hard.

Experience

  • Stripe (On-site)
    • Software Engineer II
      Feb 2026 - Present · 5 mos

      High Availability / Disaster Recovery (HADR) Risk Engineering

    • Software Engineer
      Aug 2024 - Feb 2026 · 1 yr 7 mos

      Risk Engineering

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Autonomous Mobile Robotics Laboratory
    Aug 2021 - May 2024 · 2 yrs 10 mos

    2021 - 2023: Researched the applications of inverse reinforcement learning in robot navigation under Dr. Joydeep Biswas to create more robust and efficient navigation systems that can leverage the expertice of human demostrations to have robots elect to choose more semantically correct paths. Lead the AMRL submission of the 2022 ICRA BARN Dataset Navigation Challenge; won 1st place. 2024: Developed novel Spatiotemporal Graph Transformer to predict the motion and trajectory of multi-class multi-modal agents in urban environments.

  • Software Engineer Intern at Apple
    May 2023 - Aug 2023 · 4 mos

    Apple Vision Pro (AR/VR)

  • Software Engineer Intern at Amazon Web Services (AWS)
    May 2022 - Aug 2022 · 4 mos

    Simple Storage Service (S3)

  • Undergraduate Researcher at Learning Agents Research Group
    Jan 2021 - Dec 2021 · 1 yr

    Researched novel ways to augment robot navigation through hyper-parameter tuning under Dr. Xuesu Xiao Developed neural network to understand RGB camera and LiDAR data to choose the best parameters for a traditional DWA motion planner. Co-author to paper accepted to IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR).