Ken Lu
Co-Founder CTO at FeedMob
New York, New York, United States
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Top SchoolKen Lu is a seasoned software leader and Co-Founder/CTO based in New York with 16 years of experience building web platforms and mobile ad tech. He combines deep Ruby and Rails expertise (five years specifically) with strong full-stack skills across SQL, MongoDB, JavaScript, and DevOps tooling to ship high-traffic, data-driven products. As founder of FeedMob he helped pioneer a self-serve real-time bidding mobile inventory platform, blending engineering leadership with product-market execution. His background spans startups and enterprises—Bloomberg, Yottaa, and multiple early-stage ventures—where he frequently owned architecture, test-driven development, and performance optimizations. A pragmatic engineer who quotes “premature optimization is the root of all evil,” he favors measured, test-first approaches and has a track record of rescuing and scaling systems. He also mentors Rails developers and teaches technical concepts, reflecting a commitment to growing engineering teams as well as products.
16 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
BS Information Management, BS Information Management at Hebei UniversityBS Software Engineering, BS Software Engineering at Tsinghua University
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (33)
user-feedback10
capistrano10
hotel-booking10
mongoid10
spree10
mongodb10
activemodel10
database10
ruby9
rails9
ruby-on-rails9
macos6
curl6
deprecated6
libxml26
Programming languages (1)
Github contributions (5)
hlee/enroll
Mar 2015 - Feb 2017
Contributions:357 pushes, 98 branches in 1 year 11 months
bay6/omniauth-github-example
Apr 2013 - Aug 2013
Contributions:32 commits in 4 months
ruby-on-railsrailssimple-demorubyoauth
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