Tony Lu
Senior Software Engineer - Bitcoin Platform
United States
Summary
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Top SchoolTony Lu is a Senior Software Engineer with 11 years of experience building high-throughput, resilient financial systems, currently focused on Bitcoin platform engineering at Block. He helped found Cash App Investing LLC and led design and implementation of critical services—pricing, order fulfillment, portfolios, and back-office tooling—that serve millions of customers and sustained extreme traffic events like the meme-stock surge. Tony has a track record of migrating monoliths to microservices at scale with zero downtime, automating corporate actions and risk flows, and mentoring engineers through rapid team growth. His background spans payments, crypto, robotics, and full-stack startup work, reflecting both systems-level rigor and product sensibility. Notably, he combines hands-on engineering with operational ownership—designing end-to-end testing frameworks and tooling that prevent and correct live production issues.
11 years of coding experience
3 years of employment as a software developer
Don Mills Collegiate InstituteSoftware Engineering, Software Engineering at University of Waterloo
Github Skills (26)
lightning10
modular10
lightning-network10
bitcoin10
blockchain9
rust9
docker8
bitcoin-api8
python8
breeze8
hotel-booking8
mixpanel8
cryptocurrency7
microservices7
ruby-on-rails6
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tlulu/ConNextor
Jan 2015 - Jan 2017
Contributions:31 PRs, 111 pushes, 12 branches in 2 years 1 month
tlulu/tlulu.github.io
Sep 2022 - Jan 2025
Contributions:28 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 4 months
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