Daiwei Lu
Senior Software Engineer at Roblox
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolDaiwei Lu is a Senior Software Engineer with 12 years of experience building low-level systems and consumer-facing products across VR, mobile, and web platforms, currently scaling cross-platform infrastructure at Roblox. Previously a Staff Engineer and tech lead at Meta/Oculus, he led multiple teams to ship OS-level casting, video recording, and messaging features on Meta Quest, improving casting p95 times from 34s to 5s and lifting success rates to 95%. He also led the launch of an OTT video subscription service and publisher experiences on Facebook that served 100M+ monthly users and built mobile analytics frameworks used by 15+ teams. Daiwei blends C/C++ systems work with Android AOSP, real-time networking, and full-stack product delivery, and he has a proven record of taking zero-to-one projects into production and maturing them at scale. Comfortable in startup and enterprise settings, he has experience integrating AI/LLM agents, containerized infrastructure, and Unity game work. Based in San Francisco, he pairs deep performance optimization expertise with a track record of mentoring and release leadership.
12 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master's Degree Information Management, Master's Degree Information Management at University of Maryland
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Github Skills (200)
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Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
react-container-query/resize-observer-lite
Oct 2016 - Feb 2018
A ResizeObserver polyfill that has limited functionality of ResizeObserver.
Contributions:1 release, 9 commits, 2 PRs in 1 year 3 months
resize-observer
d6u/web-playground
Aug 2015 - Jan 2016
An enjoyable playground for HTML, JavaScript and CSS
Contributions:2 releases, 197 commits, 24 PRs in 4 months
cssjavascript
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