# Alysia Wu, Ph.D. > Software Engineer@Meta Location: South San Francisco, California, United States Profile: https://flows.cv/alysia ## Work Experience ### Software Engineer @ Meta Jan 2024 – Present ### Founder & CEO @ Lewkprotocol.xyz Jan 2022 – Present Lewk protocol is building verified credentials on chain using cross Web2 and Web3 data-driven approach and connect builders through decentralized community. • Founded and launched LewkProtocol.xyz to help candidates to proof their talent using web2 data e.g. GitHub repo contribution, commits history, Stack overflow answering participation etc to create on chain user profiles and connect with web3 communities, voted as top 5 projects in Dora Grant Dao. • Conducted user research and built 200 early adopters in highly engaged Discord community and Email newsletters using Convert kit, and build out and launched the product for early adopters and community members. ### OnDeck Founder Fellow (ODF11) @ On Deck Jan 2021 – Present Exploring new things and meet amazing people ### Senior Software Engineer @ Compound Labs Jan 2022 – Jan 2024 • Drove engineering and product of compoundlabs.xyz from 0 to launch, resulting the successful rebranding of company site. • Managed and shipped account transactions history, saving user time from digging through ether scan, resulting in a ~ 5% boost in AUM across markets. • Implemented market selectors allowing compound to expand from mono-chain to multi-chain aiding users to smoothly navigate from one market to another with ease. ### Mentor @ ETHGlobal Jan 2023 – Jan 2023 ### Senior Software Engineer (Product/Tooling) @ Opendoor Jan 2021 – Jan 2022 Founding member at Team sales and support to move the needle one call at a time. - Customer Ops / Sales and Support / Self Serve - Product Growth / Consumer Growth - Front-end platform - Initiate Eng proposal using JTBD framework for engineer efficiency at the backend for front end layer for world-class customer experience via empowering the developers React, nextjs, Go, Graphql, AWS, optimizely, segment, Rails, CICD - Friday customer listening sessions ### Senior Software Engineer @ Chime Jan 2020 – Jan 2021 - Direct Deposit Conversion - Mobile Platform - Growth Driver for Graphql reliability - Security - Drive eng initiative for solving scalability issues at backend for front end layer and getting buy ins React Native, react, Graphl, Rails, optimizely, amplitude, segment ### Software Engineer @ Credit Karma Jan 2018 – Jan 2020 | San Francisco, California - Credit card Marketplace - Founding Member at Credit Karma UK Team - zero to launch - International platform Graphql, react, typescript ### Sr. Software Engineer @ Oath Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | Sunnyvale • Enhanced video encoding CMS setting feature, Account Access, Live Events, Stream Domain end to end. • Architected and Implemented the video content management platform, built search and complex filter feature for different levels of content types and components, and devised search metadata query builder component for Elastic Search Data Base and Nile ES data ingestion pipeline. • Owned and Implemented video content curation feature and video streaming app builder preview feature across all platforms, achieve acquisition of beta customers, demo in NAB. • Built Video Streaming features on Go90 website ### Software Engineer @ Verizon Digital Media Services Jan 2016 – Jan 2018 | San Francisco Bay Area * Built Video Streaming features on Go90 website, e,g Watch Next, Continue Watching, Layout toggling, using ReactJS, NodeJS, Webpack, ES6. * Own the metadata curation and content search for CMS for media experience studio app builder ### Member of Technical Staff (UI Team) @ Springpath Jan 2015 – Jan 2016 ### Scientist @ American Air Liquide Jan 2014 – Jan 2015 | fremont, california * Exceeded daily sample goals by 150% through developing efficient processes for trace metals, Gauge R&R, and linearity analysis testing, generating ~$1 million for the company annually. ### R&D Chemist @ American Air Liquide Jan 2014 – Jan 2014 | Fremont, California • Performed advanced material analysis to support the semiconductor industry’s chip-making and cutting-edge R&D development processes, produced revenue $ 78,600 in short two months, average $ 2000 per day. • Develop and implement new analytical methods for characterizing advanced precursor materials. • Maintain, troubleshoot analytical instruments in the inorganic elemental analysis area at Air Liquide - Balazs include high resolution ICP-MS, Dynamic Reaction Cell (DRC) ICP-MS. ### Postdoctoral Researcher @ UC Davis Jan 2013 – Jan 2014 * Responsible for NSF funded project focused on X-ray charging of nanomaterials, utilization and application of X-ray charging in X-ray nanomachines resulted in novel design of X-ray energy charging system. ### Research Assistant Chemistry Department @ Syracuse University Jan 2010 – Jan 2013 * Developed a breakthrough in several DOE, Air Force Research Office and ACS PRF funded projects, resulting in 2 patents and 8 co-authored papers in major scientific journals (http://nano.syr.edu/?page_id=290). * Proposed and executed 1000+ experiments to demonstrate hypothesis of the existence of novel metal and semiconducting nanomaterials with defined composition and morphology. * Conduct independent research funded by NSF, ACS-PRF, DOD-PECASE. Focused on DDA simulation for the Surface Plasmon Resonance of Au/AuxAg1-x core/alloy NPs, by first modeling the SPR behavior with a series core/shell and core/alloy models with DDA, provided key evidence for interfacial nanoalloy formation. * Core/alloy nanomaterials synthesis utilizing Microwave Irradiation (MWI), Transmission Electron Microscopy, Uv-vis etc characterization, as well as investigation of mechanism for morphological evolution and alloy formation. * First investigated the oxidation behaviors of nanoparticles with core/alloy microstructure and stainless steel like interface * Morphological control during sulfidation reaction of core/alloy NP toward multifunctional Janus-like heterostructures * Supervised two undergraduate students, one was awarded Academic Award in inorganic section and now in NYU dental school, and one in graduate school of University of Wisconsin Madison ### Teaching Assistant Chemistry Department @ Syracuse University Jan 2009 – Jan 2011 * Teaching Chemistry Lab CHE 107 and CHE 117, supervise 2-3 sections with average 30 students in each section, lecture lab materials, organize group experiments, trouble shooting and problem solving for experiments, and tutor students for lab reports as well as conduct office hours. ## Education ### Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Metallic alloyed nanoparticle Synthesis and Properties Syracuse University ### Start up school summer 2022 Y Combinator ### MicroMaster in Artificial Intelligence Columbia University ### Master of Philosophy (M.Phil.) in Materials Chemistry Syracuse University ### nanoChemistry University of Californina, Davis ### Bachelor's degree in Polymer Scicence and Engineering Beijing University of Chemical Technology ## Contact & Social - LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/in/alysiawenjiewu - Portfolio: https://master--alysiawu.netlify.app/ --- Source: https://flows.cv/alysia JSON Resume: https://flows.cv/alysia/resume.json Last updated: 2026-04-11