Chung Wu
Principal Software Engineer at Databricks
Fremont, California, United States
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Top SchoolChung Wu is a Principal Software Engineer based in Fremont, CA with 12 years of hands-on experience building developer-facing products and visual UIs. As co-founder and Head of Engineering at Plasmic, he led the technical vision for a Figma-like visual builder that generates production React code and integrates tightly with existing stacks, serving customers like Intuit and Scale AI. His background spans founding a machine-learning lead-scoring startup (Infer) and core engineering at Google, giving him deep expertise in scalable systems, data integrations, and UX-driven frontend tooling. Chung is an active front-end contributor to notable open-source projects such as Plasmic and Adobe's react-spectrum, where he improved image handling, styling abstractions, accessibility, and complex drag/slider interactions. Now at Databricks, he continues to blend product-minded engineering with platform-scale challenges. Colloquially, he’s the kind of engineer who moves between low-level performance tradeoffs and polished editor UX with equal comfort.
12 years of coding experience
20 years of employment as a software developer
BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, BS Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at University of California, Berkeley
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Github Skills (20)
accessibility10
react-components10
javascript10
ui-components10
css10
react-component10
front-end-development10
react10
image-optimization9
testing9
wai-aria7
system6
html6
swift6
swiftui6
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
plasmicapp/plasmic
Nov 2019 - Jan 2023
Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.
Role in this project:
Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 482 commits, 1 PR in 3 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Chung's commits primarily focused on the development of UI components within the Plasmic application, specifically related to image handling and styling. They implemented a new ImageLoader interface and transformed how images are loaded within the app, adding support for features like image resizing using the Plasmic CDN and setting the width/height on components and using CSS for styling. The contributions also involved refactoring styling by expanding CSS classes and creating and integrating new CSS classes, and applying logic for various scaling scenarios.
cmsdrag-dropheadlesslowcodecss
adobe/react-spectrum
Aug 2020 - May 2021
A collection of libraries and tools that help you build adaptive, accessible, and robust user experiences.
Role in this project:Front-end Developer
Front-end DeveloperContributions:1 review, 8 commits, 4 PRs in 9 months
Contributions summary:Chung primarily focused on developing and refining React components within the `react-spectrum` repository. Their contributions include implementing slider components, enhancing accessibility features with proper aria labels, and improving the interactions and usability of the slider component. They also worked on expanding test coverage and improving the structure for drag operations, which highlights their commitment to component quality.
reactaccessibleadaptiveexperiencesreact-component-library
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