You Wu
Senior Software Engineer at Descript
Seattle, Washington, United States
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Top SchoolYou Wu is a Senior Software Engineer in Seattle with 11 years’ experience building production ML inference and secure cloud platforms, currently shaping developer tools and platform capabilities at Descript. Previously a tech lead on Amazon’s research infrastructure for Amazon One, he drove launches, scaling, and accuracy improvements for critical business initiatives. His early career combined C++ research and production work in computer graphics and animation—optimizing manifold algorithms and shipping Maya plugins—bringing a rare blend of low-level performance engineering and cloud-native ML deployment. Academically grounded with dual masters from Texas A&M and a telecommunications BS, he balances rigorous research chops with pragmatic delivery. Outside of work he traded climbing the corporate ladder for climbing rocks, reflecting a practical, curious approach to problem solving.
11 years of coding experience
8 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, 3.67, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, 3.67 at Beijing University of Post and TelecommunicationsMaster of science, Visualization(Computer Graphics), 4.0, Master of science, Visualization(Computer Graphics), 4.0 at Texas A&M UniversityBachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, 3.7, Bachelor of Science (BSc), Telecommunications Engineering, 3.7 at Queen Mary, U. of London
Chinese, English
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Github Skills (33)
jetbrains9
remote-development9
development-environment9
devcontainer8
ide8
dashboard8
monitoring8
mysql8
visualization7
vscode7
analytics7
grafana7
prometheus7
elasticsearch7
data-visualization7
Programming languages (4)
Github contributions (5)
urianawu/ArtificialIntelligence
Jan 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:6 releases, 67 pushes, 6 tags in 3 months
TeamYYZ/DineApp
Feb 2016 - Apr 2016
Contributions:105 commits, 87 pushes, 4 branches in 2 months
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