Summary
Andy Tu is a senior software engineer with 11 years of experience building backend and product-facing systems at high-growth tech companies including Stripe, Riot Games, Asana, and Uber. He has shipped revenue- and safety-critical features—such as upfront tipping at Uber and financial risk tooling at Stripe—and built real-time pipelines and live-event infrastructure for esports broadcasts. Comfortable across Go, Java, Ruby, Scala and modern front-end stacks, he combines deep systems experience with product-driven desktop and UX work (Asana desktop, Pomodoro). A proactive mentor and process driver, he’s known for creating release and design-review practices and for supporting under-represented engineers. Based in Los Angeles, he brings a blend of operational readiness (onsite incident response at live events) and ship-it pragmatism honed across consumer and platform teams.
11 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Software Engineering, Bachelor's degree Software Engineering at University of Waterloo