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
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Github Skills (63)
javascript10
typescript10
user-interface10
desktop-application10
dynamics10
macos10
frontend10
react10
application10
console9
molecular-simulation9
lammps9
simulation9
linux9
water9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
ipudu/SCFpy
Apr 2016 - Dec 2018
🎉 Simple restricted Hartree-Fock code in Python
Contributions:20 commits, 18 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 7 months
pythonhartree-fockcomputational-chemistry
ipudu/mind
Feb 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:22 commits, 1 push in 1 year 1 month
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