Howard Wang — Full-Stack Engineer | Web3 & AI

XDO Agency · ListaDAO · BackPack — Web3 Strategy & BD

2025/09 - 2026/01 | Remote

Multi-role Web3 engagement: BD for ListaDAO (BNB Chain DeFi), GTM strategy for XDO agency clients, and DeFi partnership development for BackPack exchange.

• Closed 5 DeFi protocol integrations for ListaDAO — full BD cycle from outreach to contract
• Analysed 10K+ wallets via on-chain data to drive UI/UX improvements
• Executed bilingual EN/ZH GTM strategy for clients including FDUSD
• Led strategic DeFi partnerships for BackPack to accelerate ecosystem TVL growth

V Tech — Frontend Engineering Intern

2024/11 - 2025/02 | Melbourne, AU

University tools service provider serving University of Melbourne — built React dashboards and WordPress plugins for 5,000+ university users.

• Developed React responsive data visualisation dashboards for 5,000+ users
• Built custom WordPress plugin (PHP/JavaScript) bridging frontend and backend APIs
• Optimised MySQL queries — improved dashboard load time by 40%
• Collaborated with non-technical stakeholders and iterated rapidly in small eng team

Red Building Capital — Blockchain Investment Researcher

2021/10 - 2022/10 | Taipei, TW

Crypto VC focused on DeFi investments — conducted due diligence and built financial models for token investments.

• Evaluated 50+ crypto projects via tokenomics stress-testing and on-chain metrics
• Built token valuation models covering supply/demand dynamics, emission schedules, and market cycles
• Tracked portfolio performance with SQL dashboards and Dune Analytics on-chain analysis
• Identified cross-chain arbitrage opportunities and market efficiency gaps

Star-Bit (NFT Platform) — Backend Software Engineer

2021/02 - 2021/09 | Taipei, TW

High-concurrency NFT trading platform backend — designed APIs handling 10,000+ daily transactions.

• Designed Node.js RESTful APIs handling 10,000+ daily transactions with <100ms latency
• Optimised PostgreSQL schema supporting 500 concurrent users for high-frequency ledger queries
• Implemented OAuth/JWT auth and payment gateway processing $500K+/month
• Built system risk controls and data integrity validation mechanisms

ClawControl

AI agent platform for ER specialist referral — MedHack 2026. One click: AI pulls FHIR patient data, finds on-call specialists, initiates contact, and creates a live shared case room with real-time call transcription via Open Claw.

ShadowSense

AI Japanese pitch shadowing practice platform — Mistral AI Hackathon 2026. Records speech, analyses pitch curves with librosa + DTW vs VOICEVOX reference, Mistral AI generates personalised feedback.

PodDigest

Self-hosted AI podcast digest service. Subscribes via RSS/iTunes/OPML, auto-transcribes with Whisper, summarises with Claude API, synthesises audio with OpenAI TTS, outputs private RSS feed playable in Apple Podcasts.

Trading Strategy Bot

Fully automated crypto trading signal system. Binance WebSocket live candles, pandas-ta multi-dimensional indicators (CVD, Wyckoff, funding rate, market microstructure), signal synthesis → Telegram push.

I-CiE Mi Telehealth

Microservices mental health platform — multi-role scheduling REST API, Redis pub/sub WebRTC real-time video, Claude LLM API auto-generates structured medical summaries, MinIO storage. 70% DB query reduction via Redis caching.

YouTube Analyzer

Auto-tracks YouTube channels, fetches subtitles, and analyses content with Gemini AI — generates summaries, highlights, and influence scores. APScheduler-driven, Telegram bot for new video notifications.

Cross-Chain Swap DApp

Cross-chain token swap DApp using 1inch Fusion Plus protocol, Privy multi-wallet integration, Supabase swap history storage.

Climate Fact-Checker

End-to-end NLP pipeline — BERT retrieves and verifies evidence from 1M+ document corpus. Hard-negative mining fine-tuning. 87% accuracy across SUPPORTS/REFUTES/DISPUTED/NOT_ENOUGH_INFO.

Hackathons

• Participant — MedHack 2026 — ClawControl (AI ER Referral Platform) (2026, Melbourne)
• Participant — Mistral AI Worldwide Hackathon — ShadowSense (AI JP Pitch Training) (2026, Remote)
• Participant — Inter-University Datathon VIC — Financial Fraud Detection (2024, Melbourne)

Awards

• International Representative — Blockchain Olympiad (2019, Hong Kong)
• Champion — Entrepreneurship Competition — National Tsing Hua University (2018, Hsinchu)

Leadership

• Treasurer & Vice President — University of Melbourne Blockchain Club (200+ members) — HashKey, Panga Capital, BingX partnerships (2025, Melbourne)
• Founder — Student Crypto Community Australia — cross-university EN/ZH bilingual network (2025, Australia)
• Event Lead — STEPN Community Offline Event — 500+ attendees, end-to-end operations (2022, Taipei)
• Vice President — NTUST Blockchain Club (100+ members) — DeFi & Smart Contract workshops (2021, Taipei)

University of Melbourne

Master of Information Technology — Distributed Systems & Machine Learning (2023/06 - 2025/12)

National Taiwan University of Science and Technology

Master of Engineering — Civil Engineering — Computer Vision & AI thesis (2018/07 - 2020/07)

National Taipei University of Technology

Bachelor of Civil Engineering — Civil Engineering (2014/07 - 2018/07)

Languages & Frontend

• TypeScript / JavaScript: 92/100
• React / Next.js: 90/100
• Python: 92/100
• Java: 80/100
• Go: 72/100

Backend & Database

• Node.js / FastAPI: 88/100
• Spring Boot: 78/100
• PostgreSQL / MySQL: 87/100
• Redis: 85/100
• Docker / CI/CD: 82/100

AI / ML

• LLM API (Claude/OpenAI/Gemini): 90/100
• PyTorch / BERT / Transformers: 80/100
• RAG / Prompt Engineering: 88/100
• Audio / Speech (Whisper/DTW): 78/100
• n8n / Workflow Automation: 82/100

Blockchain & Web3

• DeFi / On-chain Analytics: 88/100
• Solidity / Ethers.js / viem: 78/100
• Dune Analytics / Nansen: 85/100
• 1inch / Privy / Nodit: 80/100
• BD / Partnership Development: 85/100

Trading & Quant

• MT5 Automated Trading Bot: 88/100
• Pine Script / TradingView: 85/100
• FX / Gold / Crypto Derivatives: 90/100
• pandas-ta / CVD / Wyckoff: 82/100
• Binance WebSocket API: 85/100

Data & Mobile

• R Shiny / Tableau / Power BI: 78/100
• React Native (Expo): 78/100
• Android (Java): 72/100
• Three.js / WebGL: 70/100
• Geospatial / GIS: 75/100