William Lu
Senior Software Application Engineer
San Francisco Bay Area United States
Summary
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Senior🎓
Top SchoolWilliam Lu is a Senior Software Application Engineer based in the San Francisco Bay Area with nine years of hands-on experience building HCM tooling at Workday, currently focused on real-time payroll and budget-checking reports for higher education customers. A UC Davis Computer Science graduate, he blends backend/reporting expertise with practical systems maintenance skills honed early on through university IT and lab support roles. He contributes to open source tooling—updating Homebrew Cask versions—showing attention to release detail and macOS packaging workflows. Known for pragmatic problem-solving, William moves between production engineering and the operational lift needed to keep complex systems accurate and dependable.
9 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science, Bachelor of Science (B.S.) Computer Science at University of California, Davis
Chinese, English
Github Skills (8)
version-control10
homebrew10
packaging10
macos10
homebrew-cask10
package10
macos-application10
application10
Programming languages (9)
Github contributions (5)
Homebrew/homebrew-cask-versions
Apr 2017 - Feb 2019
💀 Alternate versions of Casks (deprecated)
Role in this project:
Full-stack Developer
Full-stack DeveloperContributions:30 commits, 39 PRs, 3 comments in 1 year 9 months
Contributions summary:William primarily contributed to updating versions of software packages related to macOS application Casks, specifically for the homebrew-cask-versions repository. They focused on updating the version numbers, SHA256 checksums, and appcast/URL configurations of Airmail and Sublime Text developer builds. This work ensured that the repository maintained accurate and up-to-date information for installing the latest versions of these applications via Homebrew Cask.
caskscaskhomebrewalternate
mackoz/homebrew-cask-versions
Aug 2018 - Jan 2019
🔢 Alternate versions of Casks
Contributions:7 pushes, 2 branches in 5 months
caskshomebrewalternate
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