Allen Lu
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolAllen Lu is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with nine years of experience building resilient, high-performance network and RPC infrastructure at Uber, where he led a 10+ person tech team through cloud migration, gRPC/yarpc transitions, and service mesh adoption. He combines deep systems expertise in Go, gRPC, protobuf, Apache Thrift, Docker and service discovery with practical performance calibration and organizational leadership as a certified Bar Raiser and promo committee member. Prior roles span payments and data systems at Groupon and infrastructure engineering at Visa, giving him strong full-stack and distributed-systems instincts. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area and formerly working across Bangalore and Amsterdam, he’s known for turning complex migration challenges into reliable, production-grade platforms.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
B.S Computer Science and Finance, B.S Computer Science and Finance at Northeastern University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (50)
rpc10
message-passing10
go10
encoding10
golang10
microservices10
thrift10
protobuf10
grpc10
javascript9
benchmarking9
code-generator9
counter9
cli8
curl8
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
yarpc/metrics
Sep 2021 - Sep 2023
Fast metrics compatible with Prometheus, StatsD, and M3.
Contributions:1 release, 9 reviews, 10 PRs in 1 year 11 months
prometheus-exporterprometheusmetricsstatsdmonitoring
yarpc/yarpc-go
Feb 2018 - Jan 2023
A message passing platform for Go
Contributions:10 releases, 193 reviews, 44 commits in 5 years
golangrpcprotobufgrpcmessage-passing
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