Summary
Astrid Yu is a Production Engineer in San Francisco with 11 years of hands-on experience building and modernizing production systems across DevOps, full-stack, and systems-level projects. At Meta she upgraded a Rust/Python monitoring tool to support cutting-edge protocols like QUIC and HTTP/3 and contributed memory-footprint improvements upstream to open-source Rust libraries. Comfortable across networking, service monitoring, and typed Python, she has a track record of shipping careful, well-tested handoffs from internships to large-scale production work. Her background in robotics, game modding, and simulation surfaces in pragmatic engineering choices and a knack for instrumentation and automation. Outside work she blends hardware hobbies—amateur radio and electronics—with creative outlets like cooking and skateboarding, reflecting a multidisciplinary curiosity that fuels her technical inventiveness.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo
Burlingame High School
Chinese, English