Summary
Allen Wu is an engineering leader with 11 years of experience building and scaling product-focused organizations and systems, now serving as Member of Technical Staff in Tokyo. He has led teams of 30+ engineers and taken multiple products from 0 to GA—most recently driving Brex’s Budgets and Bill Pay offerings and previously leading Verified Listings and international expansion efforts at Airbnb. Comfortable toggling between hands-on technical leadership and organizational strategy, he has led migrations, internationalization, and infrastructure modernization across cross-functional teams. Early work includes high-performance and GPU-parallelized systems at Sandia and Symantec, reflecting a long-standing interest in performance engineering beneath his product work. Fluent in growing engineering culture—having stood up Airbnb’s China org and run new-grad hiring programs—he blends hiring, scaling, and product delivery into repeatable outcomes.
11 years of coding experience
12 years of employment as a software developer
University of California, Los Angeles