Diane Hu
Senior Software Engineer at Figma
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolDiane Hu is a Senior Software Engineer in San Francisco with eight years of experience building full-stack systems across startups and major tech firms. A Duke alum in Computer Science and Statistical Science, she combines strong engineering rigor with quantitative thinking from roles at Facebook, Microsoft, Watershed, and now Figma. She ships user-facing features and backend integrations, and has notable open-source contributions to JupyterLab—refactoring functionality into plugins and improving export/workflow behaviors. Diane brings product-minded engineering to design-forward and research-focused teams, working at the intersection of developer tooling, AI, and web platforms. Early startup and research roles, including cofounding Walla and work at LUCAS, give her a practical blend of entrepreneurship and applied research experience. Colleagues rely on her to simplify complex systems into modular, testable components that accelerate cross-functional delivery.
8 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Statistical Science Economics minor, Bachelor’s Degree Computer Science and Statistical Science Economics minor at Duke UniversityEau Claire Memorial High School
Chinese, English, Japanese, Spanish
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Github Skills (13)
javascript10
jupyterlab10
typescript-types9
typescript9
typescripts9
front-end-development8
backend7
back-end-development7
nested-loops6
forloop6
react6
java6
git4
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
jupyterlab/jupyterlab
Apr 2021 - Apr 2021
JupyterLab computational environment.
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:3 reviews, 9 commits, 14 PRs in 8 days
Contributions summary:Diane primarily focused on enhancing the JupyterLab environment, contributing to both frontend and backend aspects. Their work included modifying dialog behaviors and integrating export functionalities. They also refactored existing code by pulling out functionalities into separate plugins to increase modularity. Further commits involve fixing issues with the INotebookTracker and various linting fixes.
jupyterlab-extensionjupyterlabjupyter-widgetjupytercomputational
j3remych3n/pass-the-aux
Apr 2020 - Jul 2020
aux v2
Contributions:26 PRs, 115 pushes, 12 branches in 3 months
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