Summary
Ziyi Lu is a software engineer with a double BA in Astrophysics and Computer Science from UC Berkeley and about a decade of hands-on experience building tooling and data systems. Currently on YouTube’s Discovery Data & Privacy team at Google, Ziyi designs monitoring and alerting for model training pipelines and quickly delivers tools for urgent user data takeout requests. Past internships at Amazon and teaching experience at Berkeley show a mix of production-grade engineering, developer-facing tooling, and clear technical communication. Proficient in Python, Ruby, Go, and web frameworks like Rails, Ziyi blends rigorous scientific thinking with practical software practices (TDD, CI, Agile) to optimize workflows. Colleagues would point to a calm, team-oriented approach and an appetite for automating repetitive tasks so teams can focus on impactful work.
10 years of coding experience
Bachelor of Arts - BA, Astrophysics, 3.768, Bachelor of Arts - BA, Astrophysics, 3.768 at University of California, Berkeley
Japanese, 简体中文, Chinese, Japanese