Robert Wu
Software Engineer at Google
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolRobert Wu is a software engineer with five years of experience building consumer and system-level features at Google and Microsoft, currently based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He brings a hardware-aware software background from an EE education at USC and a track record of shipping polished mobile UI and audio features—contributing to Google's popular Oboe audio library by improving its tester app, MMAP handling, Bluetooth SCO support, and audio effects. At Google he moved from internships to full-time engineering, and at Microsoft he worked on computer vision prototypes and demo apps, showing comfort across mobile, audio, and vision domains. He combines product-minded UI work with low-level performance considerations, making him effective at bridging user-facing features and platform constraints.
4 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Master's degree, Electrical Engineering Computer Networks, Master's degree, Electrical Engineering Computer Networks at University of Southern California
Github Skills (7)
android10
java9
cprogramming-language9
c-language9
audio9
javas9
opensl-es8
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
google/oboe
Jun 2021 - Jan 2023
Oboe is a C++ library that makes it easy to build high-performance audio apps on Android.
Role in this project:
Mobile Developer (Android)
Mobile Developer (Android)Contributions:4 releases, 410 reviews, 85 commits in 1 year 7 months
Contributions summary:Robert primarily focused on improving the user interface and functionality of the OboeTester application. They made several updates to the StreamConfigurationView, fixing bugs related to MMAP, adding and correcting UI elements like spinners and checkboxes. Furthermore, the user implemented UI features such as audio effects (BassBoost, LoudnessEnhancer, etc.) and Bluetooth SCO support. They also improved the TapToToneActivity by adding a timestamp.
oboecppc-libraryandroidaudio
google/sound-checker
Oct 2023 - Mar 2025
Contributions:35 reviews, 27 PRs, 45 pushes in 1 year 5 months
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