John Wu
Los Angeles, California, United States
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Top SchoolJohn Wu is a Senior Software Engineer in Los Angeles with 11 years of experience building robust back-end systems and distributed protocols. His career spans startups and tech leaders including Apple, O(1) Labs, and Sameday Health, where he focused on production-grade engineering and scalable infrastructure. John contributes to high-profile open-source blockchain work—notably Mina Protocol—implementing CLI ergonomics, a Snark Pool, and P2P/block management that reflect deep systems and crypto familiarity. With academic roots in applied mathematics/statistics (UCLA) and an MS in computer science (NYU), he blends rigorous analytical thinking with practical software delivery. Known for loving programming languages and blockchains, he brings both curiosity and hands-on expertise to complex, performance-sensitive problems.
11 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at New York UniversityUniversity of California, Los Angeles
Chinese
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Github Skills (10)
ocaml10
cli10
blockchain9
peer-to-peer9
peer-connection9
peerjs9
cryptocurrency9
zkp9
zk9
zksnark9
Programming languages (14)
Github contributions (5)
MinaProtocol/mina
Jun 2018 - Dec 2019
Mina is a cryptocurrency protocol with a constant size blockchain, improving scaling while maintaining decentralization and security.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:484 commits, 266 PRs, 838 pushes in 1 year 5 months
Contributions summary:John implemented features related to optional CLI parameters and their default values. They modified CLI commands, added default parameters, and refactored hard-coded default values to improve functionality. They also created a Snark Pool module, implemented a random set data structure for the pool, and created code to manage the peer to peer network and the block structure.
blockchaincryptocurrencysecurityocamlzk-snarks
wu-s-john/haskell-compiler
Jan 2018 - Mar 2018
Contributions:74 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
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