Robert Tu
Service Design Director And Senior Manager at Robert Tu Design
Canada
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Top SchoolRobert Tu is a service design director and multidisciplinary design technologist with 11 years of experience crafting data-driven interfaces and strategic experiences across financial services, government, and telecom. He blends a background in electrical engineering and business development with deep expertise in data visualization, UX/UI, and design thinking to turn complex datasets into actionable, aesthetic products and dashboards. As a leader at TD and former PwC UX lead, he has built and mentored cross-functional teams to deliver research‑led solutions that improve user efficiency and business outcomes. He also runs a freelance studio and founded a wearable-tech startup, bringing both agency-style craft and entrepreneurial rigor to engagements. Comfortable with tools from Tableau and JavaScript to Illustrator and InVision, he bridges visualization, prototyping, and production. An interesting throughline: he pairs hands-on prototyping and coding roots (Processing, front-end) with strategic client-facing roles to ensure design is both beautiful and operationally viable.
11 years of coding experience
15 years of employment as a software developer
BDes, Graphic Design, 81%, BDes, Graphic Design, 81% at Ontario College of Art and DesignBASc, Electrical Engineering, BASc, Electrical Engineering at University of WaterlooExchange Program, Electrical Engineering, Exchange Program, Electrical Engineering at Tottori UniversityCertificate in Advanced Chinese Studies, Chinese Language, Certificate in Advanced Chinese Studies, Chinese Language at Beijing Language and Culture University
English, Chinese, Japanese
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Github Skills (200)
debounce10
testing10
prosemirror10
express-graphql10
schema10
browser10
minification10
directives10
firefox10
api10
vagrant10
static-site-generator10
draft-js10
ssg10
code-server10
Programming languages (16)
Github contributions (5)
thematters/ipns-site-generator
Mar 2021 - Dec 2022
Matters Site Generator for IPFS/IPNS
Contributions:10 reviews, 59 commits, 68 PRs in 1 year 9 months
ipfssite-generatoripnsmattersipns-ipfs
thematters/contracts
Dec 2021 - Oct 2022
Implementation of the Matters contracts
Contributions:1 release, 71 reviews, 201 commits in 9 months
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