Austin Wu
Software Engineer 2 at Microsoft
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolAustin Wu is a versatile software engineer with 7 years of experience building production systems at Microsoft and Amazon and a strong ML background from a master's in Electrical and Computer Engineering (UIC) and internships at Xiaomi. He combines applied machine learning, computer vision, and NLP expertise with hands-on product and infrastructure work—evidenced by leading a quant research team that built live CEX market-making and mid-frequency strategies and a unified backtest-to-live platform. As founder of SolidGPT he took an LLM-powered developer search assistant from 0 to product-market traction (2k+ GitHub stars, 3k+ active users), showing an ability to ship developer-focused ML products and grow communities. Comfortable moving between research, engineering, and operations, he brings rapid learning, resilience facing hard problems, and a track record of translating models into production impact.
6 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering, Master's degree Electrical and Computer Engineering at University of Illinois ChicagoBachelor's degree Communication Engineering, Bachelor's degree Communication Engineering at Northeastern University (CN)
Github Skills (29)
notion10
copilot10
llm9
developer-tools9
jwt-authentication8
privacy-preserving7
gatsbyjs7
react6
nodejs6
federated-learning6
jwt6
machine-learning6
authentication6
auth5
clerk5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
AI-Citizen/SolidGPT
Sep 2023 - Jan 2025
Developer AI Persona Search Agent
Contributions:5 releases, 31 reviews, 39 PRs in 1 year 4 months
codechatcopilotdeveloper-toolsgleangpt-4
FederatedAI/FATE
Jun 2019 - Jul 2019
An Industrial Grade Federated Learning Framework
Contributions:3 comments, 4 issues in 28 days
industrialfederated-learning-frameworkmachine-learninggradefate
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