Summary
Michael Wu is a Principal Software Engineer with 13 years of experience designing and shipping scalable systems across major tech companies, currently driving engineering efforts at Walmart Global Tech in the Greater Seattle area. He spent a decade at Amazon rising from intern to Senior SDE, building production-grade services and mastering large-scale distributed architectures. Michael combines hands-on coding with technical leadership, mentoring teams and translating product requirements into reliable, maintainable systems. His background includes full lifecycle development roles in both research labs and enterprise environments, reflecting comfort with prototyping as well as operating at scale. A UBC computer science alumnus, he’s equally at home in support and QA trenches—skills that give him a pragmatic, end-to-end perspective on software quality and operability. Known for “liking to build things,” he often gravitates to problems that require both deep engineering rigor and practical, deployable outcomes.
12 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
B.Sc, Computer Science, B.Sc, Computer Science at The University of British Columbia