Maurice Chu
Principal Software Engineer at Stealth Tech Startup
Redwood City, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMaurice Chu is a Principal Software Engineer and founder based in Redwood City with nine years of industry experience and a deep research pedigree (Ph.D. from MIT) bridging AI/ML, computer vision, speech, and NLP. He has led teams and shipped products at scale—from context-aware systems at Google and platform work at Roblox to founding a stealth startup—while translating research ideas into practical, production-ready platforms. His background spans sensor networks, human-robot interaction, and infrastructure inspection using semantic segmentation, reflecting a rare mix of embedded-systems intuition and modern deep-learning practice. Maurice’s strengths lie in turning novel AI research into deployable products and building engineering organizations that operationalize models in real-world settings. He continues to explore cutting-edge multimodal AI while running a stealth company, demonstrating both entrepreneurial drive and sustained technical leadership.
9 years of coding experience
16 years of employment as a software developer
Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Ph.D. Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Github Skills (106)
end-to-end-encryption10
web-application10
wysiwyg10
sn-extensions10
markdown10
marp10
javascript10
doc10
rehype10
codemirror10
evernote10
remark10
typescript10
ghost10
github-flavored-markdown10
Programming languages (12)
Github contributions (5)
theodorechu/append-editor
Apr 2020 - Feb 2021
Append to your notes @StandardNotes with GitHub Flavored Markdown via CodeMirror, Rich Markdown, and Monaco
Contributions:29 releases, 6 reviews, 634 commits in 10 months
codemirrorgithub-flavored-markdownmarkdownmarkdown-editorkatex
standardnotes/code-pro
Jan 2021 - Feb 2021
Code Editor for Standard Notes based on the Monaco Editor
Contributions:2 releases, 48 commits, 43 pushes in 20 days
code-editormonaco-editorstandardnotesstandard-notessn-extensions
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