Wei Da
Senior Software Engineer - Systems And Infrastructure at LinkedIn
Cambridge, England, United Kingdom
Summary
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Top SchoolWei Da is a Senior Software Engineer specializing in systems and infrastructure with nine years of experience building and optimizing distributed search systems at LinkedIn. With an MS in Computer Science from Ohio State and a strong CS foundation from University of Electronic Science and Technology, he focuses on scalable information retrieval and performance-driven infrastructure for search. His work spans productionizing advanced IR techniques and contributing to Search Infrastructure since an internship where he enhanced LinkedIn’s Flex Search retrieval controls. Based in Cambridge and active in CTF communities, he brings both rigorous academic research experience—including WiFi-based tracking systems—and practical security-minded problem solving to large-scale engineering challenges.
9 years of coding experience
1 year of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 88 / 100, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, 88 / 100 at University of Electronic Science and TechnologyMaster's degree, Computer Science, 3.7 / 4, Master's degree, Computer Science, 3.7 / 4 at The Ohio State University
Github Skills (126)
webview10
cpu10
scalene10
cpu-profiling10
memory-consumption10
memory-allocation9
syncthing9
desktop-application9
linux9
application9
minecraft9
windows9
moodle9
profiling9
perf9
Programming languages (11)
Github contributions (5)
D-VR/AntiVillagerLag
Jul 2022 - Aug 2022
A way to remove the performance impact of trading halls without sacrificing other villager farms
Contributions:25 pushes, 6 branches in 17 days
performance-impactvillagertradingperformancefarms
D-VR/syncMyMoodle
Mar 2024 - Jul 2024
Synchronization client for RWTH Moodle
Contributions:10 pushes, 1 branch in 4 months
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