Wallace Wu - Founding Engineer at Arc

Wallace Wu

Founding Engineer at Arc

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

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Wallace Wu is a seasoned engineering leader and hands-on backend engineer with 13 years of experience building and scaling high-impact products, most recently leading Cash App’s Banking backend organization from a handful of teams to 6 teams and 40+ engineers. He founded and took multiple products from 0 to 1—Boost, Families, and Savings—combining deep systems and embedded-systems roots (C/C++ storage paravirtualization work at Blue Coat/Symantec) with modern cloud-native operations and instrumentation. Known for hiring and developing talent—he’s driven 250+ interviews, promoted individual contributors into leadership, and built onboarding and knowledge systems—Wallace balances product strategy, technical design reviews, and operational excellence. He contributes to open-source tooling (improving LaTeXTools cite completion) and has a research-oriented background (MASc in real-time embedded software), giving him a rare mix of low-level performance insight and product-scale architecture.

14 years of coding experience

17 years of employment as a software developer

Deep Learning Foundation Nanodegree, Deep Learning Foundation Nanodegree at Udacity

MASc, Computer Engineering - Real-Time Embedded Software, MASc, Computer Engineering - Real-Time Embedded Software at University of Waterloo

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Github Skills (10)

regular-expression10

latex10

sublime-text-plugin10

python10

sublime-text10

fileio9

file-access9

file-handling9

file-processing9

code-optimization8

Programming languages (3)

CCommon Workflow LanguageKotlin

Github contributions (5)

SublimeText/LaTeXTools

Aug 2012 - Sep 2012

LaTeX plugin for Sublime Text

Role in this project:

Back-end Developer

Contributions:1 review, 5 commits, 1 comment in 13 days

Contributions summary:Wallace primarily focused on enhancing the LaTeXTools plugin for Sublime Text, particularly regarding cite completion functionality. Their contributions included enabling recursive searching for bibliography files, eliminating duplicate bib file entries, and integrating support for searching include commands within the TeX source. Additionally, the user added the ability to define the TeX root in the sublime-project file. These changes improved cite completion by finding all relevant bibliography files and integrating settings to improve functionality.

latexsublime-textsublime-text-packagesublime-text-pluginauto-complete

cwwwu/SpotifyStreamer

Jun 2015 - Aug 2015

Contributions:18 pushes, 1 branch, 1 tag in 2 months

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