Vel Wu
Data Engineer
New Taipei, Taiwan
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Top SchoolVel Wu is a Data Engineer with 9 years of experience building scalable ETL pipelines and streaming systems using Scala Spark, Hadoop, Kafka and Python, currently based in New Taipei. He has a strong background in both data engineering and web application development from a prior career as a Java software engineer, enabling him to bridge backend services, APIs and data platforms. Vel has implemented production Airflow cron jobs, CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins, and managed pipelines that process hundreds of millions of rows daily, plus experience deploying local LLMs for data services. He holds an MS in Information Management from UIUC and a BS in Economics from National Taiwan University, with a year as a visiting student at King’s College London. Outside work he’s a self-described “Progressive Space Cadet” with a passion for video gaming, a detail that underscores his curiosity and practical focus on building engaging, data-driven products.
9 years of coding experience
6 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Social Science, Economics, Bachelor of Social Science, Economics at National Taiwan UniversityMaster of Science - MS, Information Management, Master of Science - MS, Information Management at iSchool at IllinoisHigh School Diploma, High School Diploma at Taipei Municipal Jianguo High SchoolMaster's degree, Management Information Systems, General, Master's degree, Management Information Systems, General at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignVisiting Program, Visiting Program at King's College London
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Github Skills (11)
jhipster6
spring-boot6
mysql6
python3
machine-learning3
kaggle3
data-science2
digest2
data-structures1
sketching1
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Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
velwu/final_project_2020Sp
Apr 2020 - Mar 2024
Each team creates a fork from this for their course project
Contributions:65 pushes in 3 years 11 months
python
velwu/Fall20-Projects
Nov 2020 - Jul 2021
Student final projects from the Fall 2020 semester
Contributions:63 commits, 56 pushes in 8 months
fallsemester
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