Michael Hsu
Doing A Thing at Research
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Hsu is an experienced software engineer and engineering leader with nine years building products at startups and tech giants, most recently serving as Director of Engineering at Voltus and now pursuing research. He has shipped consumer-facing systems at Google (Assistant and geodata) and led full‑stack, data-focused teams at fast-moving startups, blending product intuition with solid technical execution. His background spans bioinformatics and cartography research to creative arts education, giving him a rare mix of quantitative rigor and human-centered thinking. Michael is comfortable across the stack—data ETL, visualization, fuzzy matching, and systems that scale—and has hands-on experience with simulations and computer vision from independent study. Based in New York, he brings a habit of exploring curiosity-driven projects (from lichen automata to quantum computing coursework) that often surface unconventional solutions. Colleagues describe him as a practical leader who pairs engineering craft with a quietly eclectic intellectual curiosity.
9 years of coding experience
11 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree Computer Science, Bachelor's degree Computer Science at McGill UniversityExchange Student Philosophy, Exchange Student Philosophy at Peking UniversityCreative Arts Program, Creative Arts Program at Watkinson SchoolGraduate coursework in quantum computing ecology, Graduate coursework in quantum computing ecology at Columbia UniversityChoate Rosemary Hall
Github Skills (2)
simulator5
simulation4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
sleepokay/watts-strogatz
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Contributions:13 commits, 12 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
sleepokay/plants
May 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:47 commits, 41 pushes, 1 branch in 10 months
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