Jane Wang

Her journey started in Nanjing, China. From there, Jane has lived and worked in New York, Chicago, Washington, D.C., Los Angeles, Tours (France), Tokyo, and Hong Kong. She is multilingual and has extensive experience creating opportunities and conducting business abroad.

She has served as an investment banker and a hedge fund associate, completed an American Heart Association research fellowship, founded Parkit Labs, guided product design and implementation as a product manager in a financial services startup, and hacked away in JavaScript, Erlang & Python at Hacker School.

In her free time, she writes for content platforms, including Forbes, Women2.0, and TechWomen, and makes things with brackets, numbers, and paint.

Motto: Real artists ship.

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- Jane Wang
  
  Software Engineer at Etsy
  
  Internet | Greater New York City Area, US
  
  Summary
  
  I’ve worked at the intersection of software engineering, product development, and entrepreneurship. I have a passion for technology and storytelling, and love identifying trends, formulating and validating hypotheses with data, and evaluating business models.
  
  I’m building a vintage and craft marketplace at Etsy. I advise for startups that are creating scalable solutions that empower consumers, and I write on topics related to technology trends, mobile web, digital media, entrepreneurship, and women. Thought leadership is featured in publications including Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Women 2.0.
  
  Prior to Etsy, I co-founded a technology transportation company in New York and led the organization through product development and market validation. Prior to that, I started my career, in finance, with a focus on corporate finance, real estate, alternative investments, and macroeconomic analysis and forecasting, and in science, with a research grant from the American Heart Association.
  
  Twitter: @janeylwang
  
  Experience
  - Jan 2013 - Present
    Contributor / The Huffington Post
  - Dec 2012 - Present
    Software Engineer / Etsy
    
    Build a global marketplace of handmade and vintage goods
  - Nov 2012 - Present
    Startup Advisor / Think Dirty™
    
    Think Dirty™ is a consumer movement led by an unbiased product-comparison app for personal and skincare products. Think Dirty™ empower consumers with a tool that's easy to use, so that they can learn about the potential toxic ingredients, and vote with their money by making the right choice for their health and environment.
  - Jun 2012 - Present
    Tech Columnist, Community Ambassador / NYTechWomen
    
    NYTechWomen is an organization that is empowering and promoting the participation of women in technology.
    - My writing can be found at: http://techwomen.co/author/janewang/
    - Participate in our events at: http://techwomen.co/events/
  - Sept 2012 - Oct 2012
    Consulting Engineer / Origami Inc.
    
    Built backend Node.js application that integrates with third party APIs, rewrote majority of code in JavaScript and CoffeeScript, and implemented photo uploading and Redis integration, for a Japanese venture-backed e-commerce company
  - Jun 2012 - Aug 2012
    Engineer / Hacker School
    
    Hacker School is a three-month commitment to become a better programmer. We're a friendly community of smart builders dedicated to edge practice and self-improvement.
  - Nov 2011 - Jul 2012
    CEO and Founder / Parkit Labs
    
    Parkit is the best way to find the parking sweet spot. Parkit connects individuals to share unused and underused parking throughout New York City. Share your spot and make new friends. Please download our Parkit Android app at: http://bit.ly/GCc8fw
  - May 2011 - Apr 2012
    Product Manager / Nirvana Solutions
  - Mar 2010 - Apr 2011
    Hedge Fund Associate / Bridgewater Associates
  - Jun 2008 - Mar 2010
    Investment Banking Analyst / Barclays Capital
    
    Lehman Brothers to Barclays Capital
  - Jun 2007 - Jul 2007
    Summer Hedge Fund Analyst / Gabelli Asset Management
  - Jul 2006 - Aug 2006
    Summer Investment Banking Analyst / Lazard Freres & Co.
  - May 2004 - Aug 2004
    Undergraduate Research Fellow / American Heart Association
  Education
  - 2012 - 2012
    
    Hacker School
    
    Software Engineering
    Activities: Open Source Programming
  - 2004 - 2008
    
    Northwestern University
    
    Mathematical Methods (MMSS), Economics
  - 2004 - 2004
    
    The University of Hong Kong
    
    Institute of Political Economy
  - 2000 - 2004
    
    Thomas Jefferson HS for Science & Technology (TJHSST)
  Additional Information
  - Websites:
    
    Blog, Github
Tweets

Tweets

Profile
- #JavaScript rivaling performance of native apps of the #web. It's coming. http://t.co/ey89wgWrwu
  
  May 23, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- I got my first 0.50 #bitcoin today. It feels amazing.
  
  May 16, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- May is the month of exploring financial instruments: #LendingClub and #Bitcoins.
  
  May 14, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Top 10 Google Plus Pages: http://t.co/tJPCfNW7lb #Pop #culture in an #heartbeat.
  
  May 06, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Love this - @HackerSchool User Manual: https://t.co/QMThppBlWD Never graduate.
  
  May 01, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Even Better In-Browser Mockups with #Node.js by @garannm So true.. Nice article on ALA!
  
  May 01, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- .@Github is donating private repos for women learning open source software: http://t.co/P1jfUVf89H Ask for yours!
  
  Apr 30, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @Tivs: Resize your browser and enjoy ^^ http://t.co/I5Fd5ttIlB
  
  Apr 22, 13 from Twitter for Android Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Fool's Gold - Bitcoin is a Ponzi scheme http://t.co/56GOG0aQ34
  
  Apr 12, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Mining the #Series #A crunch: http://t.co/N1O8NnQy7R via @crunchbase
  
  Apr 11, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Founder of Nasty Gal - If ever there were a Cinderella of tech, Sophia Amoruso might be it. http://t.co/mPf87mCM5H
  
  Apr 02, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Celebrating Entrepreneurial American Women http://t.co/pChzxYenpF via @HuffPostImpact
  
  Apr 02, 13 from Tweet Button Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @skeevis: Hoping that the new GMail compose experience is an april fools joke, too.
  
  Apr 01, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- RT @hackerschool: Today's the deadline to apply for our summer batch and be guaranteed an admissions decision by April 26. Apply now! ht ...
  
  Mar 31, 13 from Twitter for Mac Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- Marissa Mayer shares her story on #LeanIn http://t.co/bQ5fOdMqDP
  
  Mar 29, 13 from Twitter for Android Reply, Retweet, Favorite
- How the Maker of @TurboTax Fought Free, Simple Tax Filing For All http://t.co/RQLR2AzXbt #backward #lobbying
  
  Mar 27, 13 from web Reply, Retweet, Favorite
Repositories

Repositories

Watched Repositories

Profile
- biline
  
  HTML5 Weekend Hackathon Entry - collaborative drawing over websocket. Deployed at: http://biline.herokuapp.com/
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Feb 06, 13
- Icarus
  
  A multiplayer node.js game using socket.io. F-f-f-flap your wings! Deployed at: http://icarus.jit.su/
  
  2 forks / 4 watchers / Pushed Feb 03, 13
- Instafun_public
  
  Instafun is a node.js application that uses the Instagram API to access recent photos. Deployed at: http://instafun.herokuapp.com/
  
  1 fork / 6 watchers / Pushed Feb 02, 13
- Node-Knockout
  
  The-XX Game for Node Knockout 3
  
  1 fork / 2 watchers / Pushed Jan 30, 13
- three.js
  
  JavaScript 3D library.
  
  / Pushed Nov 15, 12
- lodash
  
  A drop-in replacement for Underscore.js delivering performance, bug fixes, and additional features.
  
  / Pushed Nov 15, 12
- underscore
  
  JavaScript's utility _ belt
  
  / Pushed Nov 11, 12
- janewang.github.com
  
  / Pushed Oct 15, 12
- RaspberryPi
  
  Tinkering..
  
  1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Sep 20, 12
- Erlang
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 27, 12
- webRTC.io
  
  An abstraction layer for webRTC. Aim is to simplify the HTML5 web standard webRTC in a similar manner to socket.io w/ websockets. Highly experimental technology
  
  / Pushed Aug 20, 12
- mousetrap
  
  Simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
  
  / Pushed Aug 10, 12
- BPython
  
  BPython REPL that pushes current screen to a public gist on F10 [feature]
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- skeletonkey.io
  
  A key made to open many locks
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- 7-Languages-in-7-Weeks
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- Battleship-for-the-Console
  
  Twiddling your thumbs? Make a little game in Python, then play.
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Jul 13, 12
- fastclick
  
  Polyfill to remove click delays on browsers with touch UIs
  
  227 forks / 2928 watchers / Pushed May 23, 13
- backbone.marionette
  
  Make your Backbone.js apps dance with a composite application architecture!
  
  491 forks / 2999 watchers / Pushed May 21, 13
- flight
  
  A lightweight, component-based JavaScript framework
  
  411 forks / 3943 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- mousetrap
  
  Simple library for handling keyboard shortcuts in Javascript
  
  260 forks / 3374 watchers / Pushed May 20, 13
- webRTC.io
  
  An abstraction layer for webRTC. Aim is to simplify the HTML5 web standard webRTC in a similar manner to socket.io w/ websockets. Highly experimental technology
  
  80 forks / 391 watchers / Pushed May 16, 13
- normalize.css
  
  A modern, HTML5-ready alternative to CSS resets (as used by Twitter Bootstrap, HTML5 Boilerplate, TweetDeck, Soundcloud, and many others).
  
  1312 forks / 8547 watchers / Pushed May 11, 13
- FitVids.js
  
  A lightweight, easy-to-use jQuery plugin for fluid width video embeds.
  
  389 forks / 1946 watchers / Pushed Apr 24, 13
- webrtc.io-client
  
  drop-in client code for webrtc.io Highly experimental technology
  
  38 forks / 56 watchers / Pushed Apr 05, 13
- picturefill
  
  A Responsive Images approach that you can use today!
  
  229 forks / 2147 watchers / Pushed Feb 28, 13
- mothership
  
  à la carte career mentorship for women developers
  
  3 forks / 11 watchers / Pushed Feb 17, 13
- Simvla-Network
  
  simvla is an open source publishing platform and blogging network by www.Dynamatik.com
  
  26 forks / 137 watchers / Pushed Feb 14, 13
- biline
  
  HTML5 Weekend Hackathon Entry - collaborative drawing over websocket. Deployed at: http://biline.herokuapp.com/
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Feb 06, 13
- ReminderBot
  
  An IRC bot that looks for messages about the future, and reminds you about them with the future comes
  
  1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Feb 03, 13
- cell
  
  Cell is a Lisp implementation in JavaScript
  
  2 forks / 28 watchers / Pushed Dec 30, 12
- virus-copter
  
  virus that runs on AR drones and infects other drones
  
  8 forks / 130 watchers / Pushed Dec 01, 12
- quickconcat
  
  a simple dynamic concatenator for html, css, and js files, written in php
  
  17 forks / 170 watchers / Pushed Nov 21, 12
- hugh-detector
  
  detect the color red in an image
  
  9 watchers / Pushed Oct 22, 12
- abyss
  
  My Onswipe hackathon entry
  
  2 watchers / Pushed Oct 21, 12
- Strange-Loop-2012
  
  My Strange Loop 2012 slideshow (reveal.js-based HTML/JS/CSS)
  
  8 forks / 31 watchers / Pushed Oct 20, 12
- nodecopter-hacks
  
  2 watchers / Pushed Oct 05, 12
- RaspberryPi
  
  Tinkering..
  
  1 fork / 1 watcher / Pushed Sep 20, 12
- Erlang
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 27, 12
- my-life-aquatic
  
  my life aquatic
  
  2 forks / 13 watchers / Pushed Aug 16, 12
- relative
  
  Support for relative rating systems à la Elo
  
  1 fork / 11 watchers / Pushed Aug 11, 12
- markov
  
  Erlang markov-chain text generator
  
  1 fork / 3 watchers / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- BPython
  
  BPython REPL that pushes current screen to a public gist on F10 [feature]
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- skeletonkey.io
  
  A key made to open many locks
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- 7-Languages-in-7-Weeks
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Aug 07, 12
- async.cljs
  
  A ClojureScript port of async.js
  
  4 watchers / Pushed Jul 28, 12
- Battleship-for-the-Console
  
  Twiddling your thumbs? Make a little game in Python, then play.
  
  1 watcher / Pushed Jul 13, 12