Michael Lu
Staff Software Engineer at Superstack
Wheat Ridge, Colorado, United States
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Top SchoolMichael Lu is a product-focused Staff Software Engineer with eight years of experience building high-throughput, low-latency systems across startups and global consultancies. He has led 0-1 product development that drove $150M in revenue, scaled internal data pipelines for real-time gaming clients, and helped deliver a trading proof-of-concept capable of 100k TPS. Equally comfortable in Rust backends and TypeScript frontends, he bridges complex infrastructure and intuitive product design while keeping the user problem central. Known for pragmatic, empathetic leadership, he has also standardized engineering practices at scale and automated cloud tooling to speed delivery. Based in Wheat Ridge, Colorado, Michael brings a musician’s sensibility for composition to systems architecture—favoring elegant, reliable solutions over technical showpieces.
8 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Music, Bachelor's degree, Music at University of South Carolina
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Github Skills (45)
token-list10
solana10
git9
github9
portal9
web-development8
game-development7
django7
html6
computer-science6
firefox6
netcdf6
amazon-s36
css6
jquery6
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
MikeLuDev/salad-generator
Aug 2019 - Aug 2019
A tool to easily generate salad ideas
Contributions:72 commits, 6 PRs, 48 pushes in 16 days
salad
MikeLuDev/global-game-jam-2024
Jan 2024 - Jan 2024
Contributions:8 reviews, 16 PRs, 23 pushes in 1 day
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