David Wang

CTO

Seattle, Washington, United States17 yrs 9 mos experience

Most Likely To SwitchHighly Stable

Key Highlights

Led engineering team for global payments risk at Airbnb.
Developed AI-driven solutions for fraud detection.
Improved chargeback review efficiency using LLM.

Stackforce AI infers this person is a Fintech expert with strong leadership in payments risk engineering.

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Skills

Core Skills

Engineering LeadershipTeam Management

Other Skills

AI/MLAutomationPrompt EngineeringPost-training techniquesLeadershipJavaSoftware DevelopmentLinuxAndroid DevelopmentAndroidPythonAlgorithmsData StructuresGitDesign Patterns

About

Dawei is the engineering head of the payments risk team in Airbnb with 15 years industry experience.

Experience

17 yrs 9 mos

Total Experience

3 yrs 6 mos

Average Tenure

8 yrs 11 mos

Current Experience

Airbnb

3 roles

Head Of Engineering, Payments Risk

Promoted

May 2022 – Present · 4 yrs 1 mo

Lead the Payments Risk Engineering organization, responsible for building intelligent systems that safeguard Airbnb’s global payments ecosystem. I drive strategy and execution for fraud detection and mitigation, chargeback prevention, and dispute management, with a strong focus on leveraging AI/ML to enhance accuracy, scalability, and automation.
Example projects:
Building AI Agent platform for the organization to automate payments workflows and specialized tasks, partnering with AI Infrastructure on orchestration, safety/permissions, and observability.
Developing LLM-based chargeback review, using prompt engineering, post-training (SFT/RLHF) and evaluation harnesses to improve decision quality and review efficiency.

Engineering LeadershipTeam Management

Engineering Manager

Promoted

Feb 2020 – May 2022 · 2 yrs 3 mos

Payments Dispute and Resolution: chargeback

Engineering LeadershipTeam Management

Tech Lead

Jul 2017 – Feb 2020 · 2 yrs 7 mos

Growth
Payments

Team ManagementLeadership

Groupon

Staff Software Engineer

May 2014 – Jul 2017 · 3 yrs 2 mos · Greater Seattle Area

Help Groupon to improve the user experience on mobile, develop the main Groupon app which has more than 50 million downloads and 4.5 rating.
Use the cutting edge libraries to develop, such as Toothpick, Dagger2, Retrofit, RxJava, OKHttp, Glide etc.
Developed the first version of Groupon travel app and shipped it to market.

Tencent

Staff Software Engineer

Apr 2013 – Apr 2014 · 1 yr · Beijing City, China

Led to developing the Android app “Stock Portfolio” which has more than million daily active users.
Re-developed the app framework with better extendibility and higher performance.
Improved the performance and reduced the latency of refreshing stock list by 2/3.