# Alexander Yu

> ML @ Causal Labs | Prev ML @ Cruise

Location: San Francisco, California, United States
Profile: https://flows.cv/alexanderyu

## Work Experience
### Founding Engineer @ Causal Labs
Jan 2025 – Present | San Francisco Bay Area

### Senior Machine Learning Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2024 – Jan 2025 | New York City Metropolitan Area

### ML/Robotics Engineer @ Cruise
Jan 2023 – Jan 2024 | San Francisco Bay Area

### Machine Learning Intern - Perception @ Cruise
Jan 2022 – Jan 2022 | San Francisco Bay Area

### SWE Intern @ SoFi
Jan 2021 – Jan 2021 | San Francisco Bay Area
Implemented loan rerun utility for Risk and Credit BU teams to efficiently run variations of underwriting request data against the underwriting policy and to compare the differences in the results generated

Reduced underwriting policy analysis time by over 50x by implementing bulk experimentation feature of utility

Created API endpoints in Java to efficiently retrieve, underwrite, and save to database the results of 1,000+ underwriting requests without running out of memory using custom out-of-core algorithm

### Assistant Wushu Instructor @ US Wushu Center
Jan 2016 – Jan 2019
Independently managed and taught 10+ student classes in 45-minute periods for 4+ hours a day 
Worked with kids of varying ages and abilities to develop their motor skills and martial arts proficiency

### Software and Marketing Intern @ Locl.io
Jan 2019 – Jan 2019
Consolidated and analyzed business web traffic statistics across various businesses and time frames 
Implemented a script to automate formatting of images in bulk for upload to Google My Business and consolidated a multi hour process to just minutes

### Museum Design R&D Intern @ OMSI
Jan 2018 – Jan 2018
Self-managed research and development of new design software workflows
Directly contributed to design process by independently designing components and structures for museum exhibit

### Electrical Hardware and Software Intern @ Fresco Logic
Jan 2017 – Jan 2017
Coded Perl software that sifted through and analyzed logs of chip simulations to look for specific simulation errors.


## Education
### Bachelor's degree in EECS
UC Berkeley College of Engineering

### Catlin Gabel School


## Contact & Social
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alexander-yu-58490a160
- Website: https://github.com/alexanderyu217

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Last updated: 2026-04-05