Wen Pu
Sr Staff Software Engineer at Uber
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWen Pu is a Sr. Staff Software Engineer with 16 years of experience building AI-driven marketplace and ads systems, currently shaping mobility matching and pricing at Uber. He combines a PhD-level background in probabilistic inference with hands-on leadership of production-scale ML systems for response prediction, pacing, forecasting, and budget optimization across LinkedIn’s jobs and ads products. Wen has led multiple high-performing teams and bridged cross-functional work with economists, statisticians, infrastructure engineers, and product managers to turn mechanism design into measurable marketplace improvements. He also developed and deployed fine-tuned LLM-based hiring agents and served as AI Compliance Champion, bringing practical experience navigating DMA, AI Act, and responsible-AI governance. An early researcher in efficient probabilistic algorithms, he brings a rare mix of deep theory and operational expertise that consistently drives real-world impact.
17 years of coding experience
17 years of employment as a software developer
MS, Computer Science, MS, Computer Science at Peking UniversityPhD, Computer Science, PhD, Computer Science at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Chinese, English
Github Skills (2)
jquery-ui10
haskell5
Programming languages (2)
Github contributions (3)
dexterpu/jquery.ui.chatbox
Aug 2010 - May 2013
jquery ui chatbox plugin
Contributions:10 commits in 2 years 9 months
jquery-ui
codemac/yi-editor
Aug 2009 - Oct 2009
Contributions:6 commits in 1 month
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