Pu Du
Software Engineer at TikTok
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolPu Du is a software engineer with 11 years of experience who blends deep scientific rigor from a PhD in Chemistry with practical software development at Tesla and currently TikTok in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has a track record of moving research-grade methods into production—publishing seven papers, building open-source research tools, and improving OCR accuracy by 80% with a novel GAN-based inpainting pipeline. At Tesla he progressed from engineer to senior engineer, demonstrating capability on large-scale, safety-critical systems, and now applies that experience to consumer-scale products. Known for strong troubleshooting and independent initiative, he pairs advanced development tooling with collaborative problem solving. Outside work he’s an engineer-gamer and active in crypto and NFT communities, signaling a pulse on emerging distributed technologies. This blend of academic depth, production reliability, and cultural curiosity makes him effective across research-to-product transitions.
11 years of coding experience
10 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry, Bachelor of Science (BS), Chemistry at Nicholls State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Chemistry at Louisiana State University
English, Chinese
Stackoverflow
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Github Skills (77)
declarative10
javascript10
linux10
desktop-application10
shell10
application10
console10
typescript10
finder10
android10
user-interface10
command-line10
frontend10
react10
cli9
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
ipudu/SCFpy
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
ipudu/awesome-molecular-dynamics
Jul 2018 - Mar 2020
:sunglasses: A curated list of awesome Molecular Dynamics libraries, tools and software.
Contributions:46 commits, 7 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 8 months
lammpsmolecular-dynamicssimulationmoleculardynamics
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