Andy Yu
Lead Software Engineer at Runway
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAndy Yu is a Lead Software Engineer with 13 years of experience building scalable systems and full-stack applications, currently leading engineering at Runway after senior roles at Uber where he helped architect next-gen fulfillment platforms. He brings deep systems knowledge from C++ and infrastructure work (Mesos/Docker) alongside modern web stacks like React, Node, and Flask, enabling him to bridge low-level performance concerns with product-facing features. Comfortable in small, collaborative teams, Andy has a track record of shipping tooling and cloud services—like a Python-based crash-log analyzer for Roku—and thrives on creative problem solving and puzzles. Based in New York and trained at UCLA, he combines hands-on implementation with API and architecture fluency, often contributing to faster developer workflows and reliable distributed systems.
13 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Troy High SchoolUniversity of California, Los Angeles
English, Korean
Github Skills (3)
pictionary5
portal2
javascript2
Github contributions (5)
shivamthapar/party-pictionary
May 2016 - Oct 2016
Contributions:10 commits, 4 PRs, 3 pushes in 4 months
javascriptgamepartypictionary
andyyu/chrome-chess-bot
Dec 2015 - Oct 2016
Contributions:27 commits, 26 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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