Steven Wu
CTO, Co-Founder at Scanner
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSteven Wu is a seasoned technology leader and co-founder with 13 years of experience building production software across startups and acquired companies in the San Francisco Bay Area. As CTO and Co-Founder of Scanner and previously a founding engineer and senior technical leader at Accompany (acquired by Cisco), he blends strategic product leadership with hands-on work across statistical modeling, scientific algorithm development, and full-stack web engineering. His background includes founding Predictive Edge (acquired by Dropbox), building ML-driven economic models for e-commerce, and shipping front-end and back-end systems at Dropbox and Amazon. Comfortable moving between low-level molecular dynamics-style algorithms and polished user interfaces, he excels at turning complex scientific problems into practical, deployable software. Known for a knack for trivia memorization, he brings curiosity and pattern-recognition skills that inform both modeling and product decisions. He holds a BS in Computer Science from Stanford and consistently operates at the intersection of research-grade algorithms and scalable web architectures.
13 years of coding experience
14 years of employment as a software developer
Mira Loma High SchoolBS, Computer Science, BS, Computer Science at Stanford University
Github Skills (96)
trinitycore10
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survival10
redis10
pulumi9
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sql9
database9
rust9
testing9
gcp9
python9
serverless9
loco9
bincode9
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
scanner-inc/redis-rs
Jul 2023 - Feb 2025
Redis library for rust
Contributions:1 review, 2 PRs, 7 pushes in 1 year 7 months
swwu/Cataclysm-DDA
Jan 2015 - Jan 2025
Cataclysm - Dark Days Ahead. A fork/variant of Cataclysm Roguelike by Whales.
Contributions:34 pushes, 9 branches in 10 years 1 month
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