Simon Lu
Staff Data Engineer
San Francisco, California, United States
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Top SchoolSimon Lu is a Staff Data Engineer with nine years of experience building reliable, scalable data platforms and pipelines across startups and enterprise environments in the San Francisco Bay Area. He combines strong systems-level CS foundations (distributed systems, automata and information theory) with hands-on expertise in Python, Java, Go, JavaScript and cloud data stacks (Airflow, Snowflake, AWS). At Pinecone and Snowflake he progressed from intern to senior and staff roles, shipping production data services, SOX-compliance automation, and platform improvements that prioritize data integrity and auditability. He pairs academic research—co-authoring work on scalable visual analytics over streaming multidimensional data—with practical engineering, and brings a rare blend of theoretical curiosity and operational discipline. Outside of work he channels his interest in complex systems into generative art and cellular automata, a hobby that often informs his creative approach to architecture and tooling.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at University of San Francisco
English, Chinese, Japanese
Stackoverflow
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585reached
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Github Skills (22)
twitter-api7
swift6
proxy6
opencart-3x6
webview6
twitter6
serve5
api5
webhooks4
aggregate2
open-data2
finance1
python1
automerge1
trading-bot1
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
Simonl07/html-steganography
Sep 2018 - Jun 2019
Contributions:4 commits, 3 pushes, 1 branch in 8 months
Simonl07/cascade
Jun 2017 - Mar 2018
Contributions:124 pushes, 1 branch in 9 months
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