Summary
Garcia Lu is a full-stack software engineer based in Seattle with eight years of engineering experience and recent roles at Meta/Facebook, where he shipped high-impact features for Marketplace Growth and org-level HR analytics. He led the design and implementation of a 0->1 "table-drilling" analytics tool that scaled to manage 200k+ employees and supported a successful pilot, demonstrating both product sense and attention to sensitive data handling. Comfortable across React, GraphQL, PHP/Hack, Java, and Python, he builds end-to-end solutions and writes robust E2E and unit tests to ensure reliability. Garcia has hands-on experience migrating massive video datasets and optimizing encoding pipelines, plus a background in NLP research and data-driven product improvements. A natural cross-functional collaborator and organizer, he pairs technical depth with strong communication and team leadership. Actively open to software roles across the U.S., he is particularly interested in consumer- or business-facing product engineering and holds H-1B work authorization.
7 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Georgia Institute of Technology
English, Chinese, Japanese