Wentao Lu
Software Engineer at Meta
Tucson, Arizona, United States
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Top SchoolWentao Lu is a software engineer with 11 years of experience specializing in data and ML infrastructure, currently at Meta after leading MLOps and valuation platforms at Opendoor. He has a strong track record building production ML training and serving pipelines, empowering teams to deploy scalable AI models and improve model lifecycle reliability. Previously at Box and Butter.ai, he delivered search, NLP, and security-focused backend systems, including an NLP stack with 94% domain precision/recall and a learning-to-rank service that outperformed traditional ranking baselines. Comfortable across Python, distributed systems, and cloud-native tooling, he bridges research and engineering to operationalize ML at scale. Based in Tucson, AZ, Wentao pairs deep academic training in computer science and materials engineering with a pragmatic focus on robust infrastructure and measurable product impact. He invites collaborations in data and ML infrastructure roles and is motivated by continual learning.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering, Master’s Degree, Materials Science and Engineering at University of WashingtonMaster’s Degree, Computer Science, Master’s Degree, Computer Science at Penn State UniversityBachelors of Engineering, Material Science and Engineering, Bachelors of Engineering, Material Science and Engineering at University of Shanghai for Science and Technology
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (41)
docker8
bots8
kubernetes7
facebook7
google-assistant7
rancher7
natural-language-processing7
voice7
dialogue-systems7
conversations7
bot-framework7
nlp7
orchestration6
chatbot6
conversational-ai6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
quocl/cmpsc431_project
Nov 2015 - Dec 2015
Contributions:69 commits, 4 PRs, 68 pushes in 1 month
butter/lucene-solr
May 2017 - Aug 2017
Contributions:23 releases, 6 PRs, 32 pushes in 2 months
solrapachelucenejavaapache-lucene
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