Summary
Alan Lu is a software engineer with over a decade of experience building backend and full-stack systems across major Bay Area tech teams, currently driving ChatGPT user growth as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI. His career spans applied AI and generative models at Meta and OpenAI, 2D computer vision at Scale AI, and vehicle routing optimization at Amazon, giving him a rare blend of ML-facing product work and classical algorithms experience. A Dartmouth graduate in Economics and Computer Science, he repeatedly moves between infrastructure, research-adjacent engineering, and product features to ship measurable user impact. Colleagues rely on him to translate complex ML and optimization problems into scalable production services while keeping an eye on growth metrics and UX.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Wyomissing Jr/Sr High School
Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA Economics and Computer Science at Dartmouth College
Cybersecurity, Cybersecurity at Pennsylvania Governor's School for Science and Technology at Lehigh University
English, Spanish, Chinese