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 (92)
python10
vega10
publish10
plot10
pipeline10
vega-lite10
science10
visualization10
machine-learning10
transform10
javascript9
sql9
database9
jupyter-widget9
data-visualization9
Programming languages (5)
Github contributions (5)
yifanwu/diel
Jul 2018 - Feb 2020
a declarative framework for scaling up your interactive visualizations with... SQL! (and some timesteps)
Contributions:272 commits, 15 PRs, 70 pushes in 1 year 7 months
data-analysissqldeclarativeinteractive-visualizationsvisualizations
yifanwu/b2
Jul 2019 - May 2021
Making interactive visualizations fit into a programming workflow.
Contributions:316 commits, 73 pushes, 5 tags in 1 year 10 months
visualizationfitinteractive-visualizationsjupyter-widgetvisualizations
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