Sophia Wu
Founding Engineer at Cogent Security
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSophia Wu is a self-taught founding engineer and former Coinbase staff engineering leader with nine years of experience building scalable backend services and distributed payment systems. She led the decomposition and multi-service scaling of send/receive infrastructure that cut latency by 90%+ and drove multichain and stablecoin payment launches that enabled millions of crypto transfers. With a chemistry background (BS/MS from Carnegie Mellon) turned computer scientist, she brings a unique experimental mindset to systems architecture and operational reliability. Sophia combines hands-on engineering, people leadership, and product-focused thinking to move high-risk financial systems to production at scale. She’s quietly technical—holding a pending patent for transactional design—and prefers solving hard distributed-systems problems that directly improve customer outcomes.
9 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Software Engineering, Software Engineering at Self-taughtComputer Science, Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon UniversityHigh School, High School at Germantown Academy
English, Chinese
Github Skills (19)
javascript10
css10
ruby10
html10
nodejs10
web-development10
ruby-on-rails10
sales-tax8
avalara8
tax-rate8
tax6
netsuite6
sdk5
ruby-sdk5
api4
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (5)
SophiaLWu/game-jam-2020
Jul 2020 - Jul 2020
GMTK Game Jam 2020
Contributions:46 PRs, 53 pushes, 43 branches in 1 day
gamejamraycastinggame-jamgmtk
SophiaLWu/book-of-faces
Feb 2017 - Jun 2017
Contributions:32 pushes, 1 branch in 3 months
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