David Lu
Software Engineer at Roblox
Redwood City, California, United States
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Top SchoolDavid Lu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience focused on systems, reliability, and platform engineering, currently building internal tools and agentic AI-driven infra at Roblox. A University of Texas at Austin CS graduate (3.95 GPA) with a strong interest in performance optimization for ML models, he blends low-level systems knowledge with practical cloud-native engineering. His background includes NLP-driven automation and CI/CD work at Capital One, hands-on teaching of computer architecture and systems programming at UT, and published research on medical image signal processing from Johns Hopkins. Based in Redwood City, he brings a research-minded approach to production problems, often translating academic signal-processing and architecture lessons into scalable engineering solutions. Notably, he has experience shipping both model-powered product features and core platform reliability improvements, making him fluent across the ML, systems, and infrastructure stack.
11 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.95, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.95 at The University of Texas at AustinHigh School Diploma, Honors College - Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, 4.0, High School Diploma, Honors College - Texas Academy of Mathematics and Science, 4.0 at University of North TexasGithub contributions (5)
dayal/Calculasian
Sep 2014 - Oct 2016
Contributions:42 commits, 12 pushes, 1 comment in 2 years 1 month
dayal/SearchEngine
Sep 2016 - Dec 2016
Contributions:38 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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