Fred Wu
Freelance Consultant - Software Development, Delivery, Leadership at Petal Framework
Greater Melbourne Area Australia
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Top SchoolFred Wu is a seasoned software leader and freelance consultant with 16+ years of hands-on experience building and scaling web and AI-enabled products from startup to enterprise. He blends CTO-level strategy with deep engineering skills across Elixir, Ruby on Rails, JavaScript and cloud DevOps, and has led teams of 40+ engineers while shipping mission-critical platforms. An active open-source contributor, Fred has contributed to core projects like Ruby on Rails and Slim and improved backend systems for widely used projects such as Vanilla and Devise. He’s also a serial maker who launched three micro-SaaS products—Feedbun, Rizz.farm and Persumi—that showcase his interest in practical AI, content, and growth tooling. Comfortable switching between coding, architecture and product, Fred has a track record of modernising platforms (fintech, digital pathology, hospitality) and integrating ML where it materially improves outcomes. Based in Melbourne, he combines entrepreneurial curiosity with a decade-plus of public OSS work that surfaces a pragmatic attention to developer experience and long-term maintainability.
16 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
Artificial Intelligence, Artificial Intelligence at CourseraUndergraduate Certificate in Applied Design, Undergraduate Certificate in Applied Design at University of TasmaniaShanghai Xiangming High SchoolDandenong High SchoolNoble Park English Language SchoolDual Diploma of Multimedia Integration and Website Development, Dual Diploma of Multimedia Integration and Website Development at HolmesglenBachelor of Information Technology and Systems, Bachelor of Information Technology and Systems at Monash University
English, Chinese, Shanghainese
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Github Skills (33)
ruby-rails10
devise10
javascript10
jquery10
back-end-development10
elixir10
testing10
plugin-development10
scraper10
rails10
httpoison10
template-engine10
haml10
ruby10
php10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
fredwu/crawler
Aug 2016 - Oct 2021
A high performance web crawler / scraper in Elixir.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:6 releases, 232 commits, 15 PRs in 5 years 3 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily contributed to the development of a high-performance web crawler/scraper in Elixir. Their work included adding and integrating dependencies like `mock` and `bypass` for testing, and `amnesia` for storing crawled pages. Key features implemented involved refactoring the codebase, improving the crawling process, and enhancing the code's modularity by introducing components like `Parser` and options management.
web-crawlerelixirperformancecrawlerweb-performance
rubyconfig/config
Aug 2010 - Jan 2016
Easiest way to add multi-environment yaml settings to Rails, Sinatra, Padrino and other Ruby projects.
Role in this project:Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:50 commits, 5 PRs, 9 pushes in 5 years 6 months
Contributions summary:Fred primarily focused on version bumping and adding functionality to the RailsConfig gem. They added a feature to generate empty settings files, fixed tests, added a shortcut method for setting files, and renamed the gem. Furthermore, the user updated the gem's version multiple times, indicating a focus on release management and iteration on the project's features.
configurationsinatrarailsconfiguration-managementruby
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