Yu L
Senior Staff Software Engineer at Abnormal AI
Seattle, Washington, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolYu L is a Senior Staff Software Engineer with 12 years' experience building ML-driven systems and threat detection products, currently shaping detection strategy and architecture at Abnormal AI. A founding engineer who helped scale the company from day one to over $200M ARR, Yu has led teams, filed foundational detection patents, and driven products that materially contributed to company revenue. Prior roles include building Twitter’s Cortex ML platform and co-founding an agriculture analytics startup acquired by Syngenta, reflecting a blend of infrastructure, applied ML, and entrepreneurial grit. Based in Seattle, Yu emphasizes creating work environments people love while remaining deeply hands-on in data science and detection engineering. Notably, his background spans technical leadership, people management, and inventing production-grade ML detection capabilities that bridge research and product impact.
12 years of coding experience
4 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS Computer Science at Duke UniversityRaffles Institution
English, Chinese
Github Skills (1)
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Github contributions (5)
cranberryofdoom/hackduke
Aug 2014 - Oct 2015
Contributions:12 commits, 3 PRs, 3 pushes in 1 year 2 months
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u-jo/temptasians
Jan 2015 - Aug 2015
Contributions:6 pushes, 1 branch in 7 months
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