Michael Lu
Software Engineer at Palantir Technologies
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolMichael Lu is a software engineer with 14 years of experience building large-scale infrastructure and ads systems across leading tech companies. A University of Pennsylvania CS graduate with minors in Mathematics and Data Science, he has shipped core back-end services at Microsoft (Cloud & AI), driven global ads infrastructure and search ads at TikTok, and most recently joined Palantir to work on mission-critical systems. He combines strong systems and data skills—garnered from roles spanning advertising identity platforms to image-processing research—with hands-on experience in distributed microservices. Based in the Bay Area, he prefers solving complex infrastructure problems that enable high-throughput monetization and measurement, and brings a practical, research-informed approach from early academic and industry internships.
13 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of Pennsylvania
English, Chinese
Github Skills (2)
flutter3
react3
Github contributions (2)
michaelkanglu/Daily-Budget-Tracker
May 2012 - Jun 2012
Contributions:51 commits in 21 days
reacteverydaycaloriesaidbudgets
michaelkanglu/michaelkanglu.github.io
Dec 2020 - Dec 2020
Contributions:1 push, 1 branch in 1 day
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