Michael Wu - Venture Investing at Lovable

Michael Wu

Venture Investing at Lovable

Evanston, Illinois, United States

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Michael Wu is a venture investor and product-focused technologist with 11 years of experience building and scaling financial and security-driven technology. He began his career at Citi managing a multimillion-dollar tech portfolio, gaining deep domain knowledge in regulated finance, then sharpened rapid product delivery and stakeholder management at Wiz during hypergrowth and acquisition. Now an MMM candidate at Northwestern, he combines human-centered design, product strategy, and business rigor to pursue fintech opportunities in payments, wallets, and consumer finance. He also brings hands-on engineering chops and open-source credibility from significant backend contributions to Apache Iceberg, including Aliyun OSS integration and testing infrastructure. Comfortable translating complex financial workflows into practical products, Michael blends enterprise discipline, startup speed, and a founder’s grit to build the next generation of fintech.

11 years of coding experience

4 years of employment as a software developer

CORe, CORe at Harvard Business School Online

Bachelor's Degree, Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program, Biophotonics Engineering and Finance, Bachelor's Degree, Integrated Business and Engineering Honors Program, Biophotonics Engineering and Finance at Lehigh University

Kellogg School of Management

Central Bucks High School East

Chinese, English, French

Github Skills (10)

javas10

junit10

object-storage10

object-store10

java10

alioss10

apache-iceberg10

jtest10

apache-flink9

flink-sql9

Programming languages (1)

Java

Github contributions (5)

apache/iceberg

Aug 2021 - Nov 2021

Apache Iceberg

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:21 reviews, 9 commits, 16 PRs in 3 months

Contributions summary:Michael contributed significantly to the Apache Iceberg project, focusing primarily on integrating and testing the storage layer on Aliyun OSS (Object Storage Service). Their work included creating a mock Aliyun OSS for testing, implementing an OSS output stream, and developing an OSS input stream. They also enhanced testing capabilities by adding a configurable test rule for Aliyun OSS. Furthermore, they updated the Flink sink to utilize FlinkSink#append.

apache-icebergapachebig-datadatastreamjava

xingbowu/iceberg

Aug 2021 - Feb 2022

Apache Iceberg

Contributions:62 pushes, 8 branches in 6 months

accumuloconnectorapache-icebergapachebig-data

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