Di Wu
Summary
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SeniorDi Wu is a seasoned software engineering leader with 12 years of experience building production systems and leading large teams across companies like Waymo, Roblox, Facebook, and OpenAI. He blends hands-on full‑stack development—contributing UI features and Docker support to the popular open-source Redash project—with people leadership, having led 30+ engineers and interdisciplinary safety and ML teams. At Waymo he oversaw Safety in Simulation, delivering validated evaluation infrastructure across research and operations, and at Facebook he shipped cross‑stack video conferencing products and internal platforms. Currently a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI and an active career coach, he pairs technical depth with a strong focus on mentorship and team growth. Colleagues describe him as “strong opinion, weakly held,” reflecting a pragmatic, collaborative approach to product and engineering trade-offs. He’s as comfortable debugging infrastructure bottlenecks as he is shaping strategy for complex, safety‑critical systems.
12 years of coding experience
Github Skills (15)
momentjs10
javascript10
visualization10
dashboard10
visualizations10
front-end-development10
redash10
dockers9
angularjs9
docker9
python8
git7
analytics5
postgresql5
business-intelligence5
Programming languages (18)
Github contributions (5)
getredash/redash
Sep 2015 - Nov 2015
Make Your Company Data Driven. Connect to any data source, easily visualize, dashboard and share your data.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:55 commits, 8 PRs, 66 comments in 1 month
Contributions summary:Di primarily focused on enhancing the user interface and functionality of the Redash platform. They implemented a date range selector feature, integrating it into the charting visualizations and ensuring proper data filtering. Furthermore, the user addressed dashboard usability issues by incorporating a "clearfix" class and corrected an issue with date range updates within the dashboard. The user also contributed to Docker support, streamlining the deployment process.
pythondatacompany-datavisualizebusiness-intelligence
tjwudi/magicmock.js
Feb 2016 - Feb 2016
Contributions:31 commits, 24 pushes, 1 branch in 3 days
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