Summary
Teakay Wu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building large-scale social and advertising systems across top-tier tech companies, currently contributing to Roblox’s social stack. He has deep hands-on experience in ads targeting, monetization, and collaborative ads from roles at Snap and Meta, and a strong full-stack background from internships at Microsoft, Flexport, and others. Comfortable across backend, front-end and infrastructure tooling, he has shipped features spanning targeting algorithms to user-facing clienteling and trucking apps. Based in Burlingame and educated at the University of Waterloo in CS and Combinatorics & Optimization, he pairs rigorous problem-solving with a taste for elegant, artful code—captured in a GitHub ethos that “life imitates art.”
10 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Computer Science, Bachelor of Computer Science at University of Waterloo