James Wu
Software Engineer at Vanta
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJames Wu is a software engineer with nine years of hands-on experience building reliable, production-ready systems, currently focused on security and compliance at Vanta. He has strong machine learning exposure from work at Bloomberg and UCLA’s Scalable Analytics Institute, where he evaluated major LLMs and built data pipelines to benchmark model performance on academic problems. James combines full-stack product experience—from mobile apps and MERN workshops to automated end-to-end QA—and has shipped features that improved network reliability and binary security tooling during internships at Arista and GrammaTech. A mentor and leader in the UCLA ACM community, he has led workshops, run club operations, and managed cross-functional teams while maintaining a 3.85 CS degree. Known for bridging research and product, he often surfaces practical tooling to make model evaluation and security analysis repeatable.
9 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.85, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 3.85 at University of California, Los AngelesEngineering, Mechanical Engineering, 4.5, Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, 4.5 at Diamond Bar High School
English
Github Skills (16)
in-progress7
medicine7
extraction6
biomedical6
crowd5
nlp4
keras4
datasets4
information-extraction4
python4
deep-learning3
machine-learning3
pytorch3
codebase3
crowdsourcing3
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
jswu18/distribution-discrepancies
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Contributions:59 commits, 20 PRs, 56 pushes in 5 months
jswu18/gvi-gaussian-process
Dec 2022 - Dec 2023
Contributions:21 PRs, 369 pushes, 107 branches in 1 year
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