Yu Wu
Software Engineer at Google
Mountain View, California, United States
Summary
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RockstarYu Wu is a seasoned software engineer with 12 years of experience blending research-grade HCI and educational-technology insights with production-scale systems at companies like Google and PayPal. Currently leading vertical query understanding and ranking at Google, he has a strong track record building data pipelines, ML models, and consumer-finance products using Spark, Kafka, TensorFlow/Keras and NLP tooling. His PhD work involved large-scale GitHub data analysis and tooling for curation, reflecting a persistent interest in helping engineers find relevant resources and improving developer workflows. Comfortable across full-stack, data engineering, and ML, he brings both academic rigor and practical delivery to complex problems and has repeatedly moved prototypes into real product features. An often-overlooked strength is his background in designing learning systems and MOOC interactions, which informs a user-centered approach to algorithmic decision-making.
12 years of coding experience
Stackoverflow
213reputation
15kreached
4answers
2questions
Github Skills (78)
python10
unicorns10
statistics10
golang10
science10
data-science10
hypothesis-testing10
collections10
data-analysis10
lists10
machine-learning10
javascript9
database9
github-repos9
rust9
Programming languages (8)
Github contributions (5)
chaconnewu/free-data-science-books
Nov 2013 - Oct 2018
Free resources for learning data science
Contributions:62 commits, 14 PRs, 18 pushes in 4 years 11 months
statisticspythonsciencedata-analysishypothesis-testing
chaconnewu/jsalgorithm
Apr 2015 - May 2015
Contributions:7 PRs, 80 pushes, 1 branch in 1 month
javascript
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