Daniel WangI’m Daniel Wang, a product-minded software engineer at USC working across web products, business systems, and entrepreneurship. I like taking ideas from rough problem to shipped experience.
About
I’m interested in the layer between code and outcomes: what people need, what a business can actually operate, and what makes a product worth returning to.
I study Computer Science & Business Administration at USC Viterbi. Most of my best work has come from building for real constraints: a service business that needs scheduling to work, a scholarship platform serving a large audience, a university team shipping web content, or a local business that needs a clearer path from visitor to customer.
That’s also why entrepreneurship interests me. I enjoy the technical side, but I’m equally drawn to choosing the right problem, talking to users, iterating quickly, and making software useful enough that somebody wants to keep it.
300K+
users reached by OpenGrant
5×
Winning hackathon projects
40K+
users reached across APEERS projects
400+
hackathon attendees at Tech Titans Hack Fest
Experience
I’ve gravitated toward roles where the feedback loop is short: build, ship, observe, fix, improve.
USC Viterbi School of Engineering
2026 — Present
Supporting Viterbi's web presence through content updates, newsletter implementation, link-quality checks, and AI-assisted website workflows.
Dancing Fingers Massage AZ
2022 — Present
Built and maintain a customer-facing site plus a custom booking system with multi-therapist availability, appointment management, Firebase backend services, and automated SMS flows.
Project Empower / OpenGrant
2024 — 2026
Built responsive product UI for education and nonprofit software, including OpenGrant, a scholarship platform that has reached 300K+ users.
APEERS
2024 — 2026
Developed responsive interfaces across client projects with Next.js, React, and Tailwind, contributing to experiences that reached 40K+ users.
Selected projects
The thread across these projects is utility: software that helps someone book, discover, learn, decide, or get something done.
Business system
A booking and operations workflow for a real service business — customer scheduling, therapist availability, backend appointment management, lead-time rules, and automated confirmations.
Built around day-to-day business constraints, not a demo spec.
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Education product
Front-end work for a scholarship discovery platform designed to make funding opportunities easier to navigate and act on.
Product reached 300K+ users and millions of views.
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Learning product
A tutoring-focused product built under hackathon pressure, turning a broad student support problem into a focused, usable experience with a clear path from need to help.
Won 1st place at Innovation's Tech for All Hackathon.
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Organization website
Built the full APEERS website, turning the organization's goals and content into a polished, responsive experience with Next.js, React, and Tailwind CSS.
Owned the public-facing site end to end — from implementation and responsive behavior to final delivery.
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Resume
My core toolkit is modern web development, but the work usually spans product decisions, stakeholder communication, business constraints, and iteration after launch.
Education
Viterbi School of Engineering
B.S. Computer Science & Business Administration
Expected May 2030
Recognition
$40,000 scholarship recipient · Incoming Amazon Future Engineer intern, Summer 2027.
Tools I reach for
One-page resume
Download the PDF for a compact overview of experience, projects, technical skills, leadership, and awards.
Contact
I’m especially interested in software engineering, product-building, startup work, and practical web systems where I can own a meaningful piece of the outcome.