Willie Wu
Lead, Manufacturing Systems Engineer at Actively Seeking
Portland, Oregon, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolWillie Wu is a Lead Manufacturing Systems Engineer with 13+ years of semiconductor experience designing and scaling factory automation, metrology, and MES integrations across eight global sites. He combines hardware, software, and data pipelines to drive measurable gains—raising availability from 90% to 94.5% and boosting wafer run-rate while eliminating recurring equipment-failure incidents. A co-architect of a fungible metrology platform and builder of automation that cut multi-day setups to one hour, he excels at turning complex, production-scale workflows into reliable, deployable systems. Comfortable coding in Python and C# and integrating SECS-GEM and TwinCAT3 equipment, he’s now expanding into AI agents and intelligent automation to modernize semiconductor operations. Willie’s background—a PhD in Materials Science and a history of hands-on process and R&D engineering—gives him a rare blend of research rigor and manufacturing pragmatism.
10 years of coding experience
19 years of employment as a software developer
Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science, Doctor of Philosophy - PhD, Materials Science at University of Illinois Urbana-ChampaignBachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry, Computer Science, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Chemistry, Computer Science at Williams College
Github Skills (34)
sdk10
intel9
hardware9
payment-methods9
in-app-purchase9
computer-vision9
energy8
camera-api7
dsa7
crc7
pcm7
realsense7
counter7
cpu6
performance-counters6
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
intel/accelerator-solution-zoo
Aug 2022 - Jan 2023
Intel accelerators Zoo, like one of its solution Intel® Vector Data Streaming Library, it's a zoo of solutions based on Intel 4th Xeon processor or later HW accelerators, such as DSA, IAA, DLB,QAT and etc.
Contributions:3 reviews, 17 commits, 1 PR in 4 months
streaming-datavector-dataintelstreamingaccelerators
wllw210/git-usage
Nov 2017 - Nov 2017
Contributions:8 pushes, 3 branches, 1 tag in 2 days
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