Winston Lu
San Francisco Bay Area United States
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Top SchoolWinston Lu is a software engineer and computer engineering student at the University of Waterloo with eight years of hands-on experience spanning firmware, cloud, and security roles. He has built safety-critical systems at Tesla’s Supercharger team—creating a custom AI model that cut error rates from 85% to 12%—and led DevSecOps and IoT firmware work on STM32WL platforms in GCP/AWS environments. Winston co-founded a university EV design team to prototype portable electric vehicles, blending mechanical, electrical, and software engineering in practical builds. His background includes cryptography, identity/access automation, and production SIEM work, demonstrating a strong security-first mindset across projects. Based in Vancouver, he’s an active learner who enjoys CTFs and computer security research, and maintains a public GitHub as a living portfolio of his multidisciplinary work.
8 years of coding experience
2 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor's degree, Computer Science, Bachelor's degree, Computer Science at National University of SingaporeBachelor of Engineering - BE, ENGINEERING, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, ENGINEERING at Western UniversityBachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering, Bachelor of Engineering - BE, Computer Engineering at University of Waterloo
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Github Skills (22)
esp826610
led-controller10
clock10
webserver10
arduino9
iot8
3d8
rewrite8
discord-js7
discord-bot7
discord6
discord-py5
attiny5
i2c4
python4
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
Winston-Lu/ESP8266-LED-Shelf
Apr 2021 - Jul 2022
A ESP8266 rewrite from the ground up of a 3D printable shelving system with a hidden giant clock in its shelves edges based off of the original project: https://github.com/DIY-Machines/DigitalClockSmartShelving
Contributions:2 reviews, 135 commits, 1 PR in 1 year 3 months
3desp8266arduinoclockdiy
Winston-Lu/Teensy-3.6-Keylogger
Aug 2019 - Apr 2021
Contributions:15 commits, 14 pushes, 1 branch in 1 year 7 months
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