Yifan Wu
San Francisco, California, United States
Summary
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SeniorYifan Wu is a Member of Technical Staff and former CTO with 11 years of experience building developer-facing data tools and abstractions, currently working on research tools at Anthropic and OpenAI. He designs complex systems—from a SQL transpiler and reactive, hybrid client/server execution for interactive visualizations to a Python program slicer that cleans notebooks into pipelines—and is a strong open-source contributor (notably Linea/Lineapy and OSS visualization tools). Trained as a PhD researcher at UC Berkeley and a former teacher, he excels at explaining novel concepts and translating ambiguous ideas into practical roadmaps. He pairs product-minded engineering with conscious leadership practices—over 200 hours of coaching and meditation—to foster teams that value quality, efficiency, and inclusive candor. An unconventional strength: he studies API ergonomics and developer UX deeply, turning human-centered insights into elegant technical abstractions.
11 years of coding experience
Github Skills (52)
visualization10
vega10
data-science10
data-pipeline10
vega-lite10
javascript9
graphic9
data-pipelines9
plot9
desktop-application9
typescript9
sqlite9
visualizations9
sql9
database9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
logical-interactions/logical-interactions.github.io
Dec 2017 - Nov 2020
website for logical interactions
Contributions:163 pushes, 1 branch in 2 years 11 months
javascriptinteractions
yifanwu/diel-db-server
Apr 2019 - Feb 2020
Simple wrapper around commodity DB for use with DIEL
Contributions:11 commits, 1 PR, 9 pushes in 10 months
sqldatabase
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