Jia Wu
Team Lead, Deployed Engineering at Cognition
Mountain View, California, United States
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Top SchoolJia Wu is a solutions architect and team lead with 11 years of experience transitioning research-grade ML and bioinformatics systems into production-grade, cloud-native deployments. Currently leading Deployed Engineering at Cognition after Windsurf’s acquisition, Jia blends hands-on model development and infrastructure (Kubernetes, CUDA/TensorFlow) with pre-sales and strategic solutioning from prior roles at Tyk and startups. His background includes a PhD-track in computer science at Waterloo, co-founding an AI speech startup where he built custom transformer models and production ETL/APIs, and improving computational genomics pipelines early in his career. Based in Mountain View, he’s equally comfortable authoring technical content, demoing complex integrations, and architecting scalable ML-driven services—an engineer who moves research prototypes through to customer-facing, revenue-generating products.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor’s Degree Honours BMSc Computational Biochemistry, Bachelor’s Degree Honours BMSc Computational Biochemistry at Western UniversityFort Frances High SchoolShad Valley Certificate of Completion Business/Mathematics, Shad Valley Certificate of Completion Business/Mathematics at Shad Valley At Memorial UniversityDoctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Computer Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD Candidate Computer Science at University of Waterloo
English, Chinese
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Github Skills (60)
apim10
api-management10
kubernetes10
reverse-proxy10
tyk10
kubernetes-operator10
cicd10
kubernetes-deployment10
api10
rest10
gateway10
api-gateway10
tcp10
graphql10
protocols10
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JRWu/gpu-compute-environment
Nov 2018 - Sep 2019
Contributions:9 commits, 7 pushes in 10 months
JRWu/jiarongwu
Oct 2022 - Aug 2024
Contributions:28 pushes in 1 year 9 months
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